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Bug#803519: marked as done (lintian: Search for the string "legal" in every file, as it is gererally misused)

Your message dated Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:06:25 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#803519: lintian: Search for the string "legal" in every file, as it is gererally misused
has caused the Debian Bug report #803519,
regarding lintian: Search for the string "legal" in every file, as it is gererally misused
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

  The word "(il)legal" is too often used in a wrong sense, both in
documentation, diagnostic messages, and in a code as a part of a name
of an identifier.

  This should be changed to a correct name, like "(in)valid", which is
mentioned in the "GNU Coding Standard" and which is just common sense.

  "Lintian" should therefor search for this text string in every file
and report it.  Files with all correct use of "(il)legal" can then
later be put on the "overrides" list, if they are unchanged from the
last run of "lintian".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt11-u5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.25-5
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-7+b3
ii  diffstat                       1.58-1
ii  file                           1:5.22+15-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.3-2
ii  hardening-includes             2.6
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b2
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.39-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.37-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.17.25
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.195-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.03-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.33-2+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1.1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.11-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.64-1
ii  man-db                         2.7.0.2-5
ii  patchutils                     0.3.3-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii  t1utils                        1.38-4

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl             <none>
ii  perl                            5.20.2-3+deb8u1
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.2-3+deb8u1

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.17.25
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-1+b3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
pn  libyaml-perl           <none>
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lintianrc changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason

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--- Begin Message --- 
Control: tags -1 wontfix

Closing as wontfix due to:

On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:40:38 -0800 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> writes:
> 
> >   [...]
> 
> >   Is such use semantically correct?
> 
> Yes.  Illegal has multiple meanings in common English usage, one of which
> is "prohibited by accepted rules." [...]

Plus, (also Russ Allbery, but separate mail):
> Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> writes:
> 
>>   It is not enough to check just the Debian part of a package.  The
>> part that comes from upstream should be scrutinized.  
> 
> If you want to try to teach various upstreams to use the word "illegal"
> the way that you want them to do so, feel free.  You already have all the
> tools that you need to take this on personally.  But this is not the
> purpose of the Lintian tool.

Thanks,
~Niels

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