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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.41
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
In one of my packages, lintian reported a spelling error 'homogenous' which
should be fixed to 'homogeneous'.
Not being a native English speaker, I trusted lintian, created a patch and
submitted it upstream, only to get a reply:
> My dictionary (American Heritage) says 'homogenous' is an acceptable spelling
> of 'homogeneous', and it's how I pronounce the word.
So I did a quick check, and Merriam-Webster [1] seems to allow the 'homogenous'
spelling as well.
Other sources [2] even suggest that 'homogenous' is the de-facto spelling of the
word, while the Online Etymology Dictionary - which according to [3] suggested
that this is an 'erroneous spelling of "homogeneous"' - claims in it's current
edition [4] that it is 'a spelling of "homogeneous" that represents a common
pronunciation' (thus accepting the spelling).
I would therefore suggest to consider 'homogenous' to be a false positive and
drop it from the lintian database.
[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homogenous
[2] http://grammarist.com/usage/homogenous-homogeneous/
[3] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/homogenous
[4] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=homogenous
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.26-5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.61-1
ii file 1:5.25-2
ii gettext 0.19.7-2
ii hardening-includes 2.8+nmu2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b5
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.56-2
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.4
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.198-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8
ii libperl5.22 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.22.1-8
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.41-6+b1
ii man-db 2.7.5-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-1
ii perl 5.22.1-8
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.4
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b1
ii perl 5.22.1-8
ii perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl] 5.22.1-8
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.4
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.5.42
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 816599@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (supplier of updated lintian package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:38:32 +0000
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.5.42
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 789878 795641 799083 816599
Changes:
lintian (2.5.42) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- systemd-service-file-missing-documentation-key
+ Removed:
- dh_scrollkeeper-is-deprecated
- dh_suidregister-is-obsolete
.
* checks/copyright-file.pm:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Rafael Kitover to avoid some
false-positives with the DEP-5 copyright format.
(Closes: #795641)
* checks/debhelper.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Remove tags for dh_scrollkeeper and dh_suidregister,
which are removed in the next version of debhelper.
* checks/files.desc:
+ [JW] Update freedesktop.org specification URL.
* checks/menu-format.desc:
+ [JW] Update freedesktop.org specification URLs.
* checks/systemd.{desc,pm}:
+ [NT] Apply patch from Chris Lamb to flag systemd units
without the "Documentation" key. (Closes: #799083)
.
* data/scripts/interpreters:
+ [JW] Add hhvm as a known interpreter. (Closes: #789878)
* data/spelling/corrections:
+ [JW] Add more corrections.
+ [JW] Remove correction for "homogenous". (Closes: #816599)
Thanks to IOhannes m zmölnig for the bug report.
.
* debian/control:
+ [NT] Add (Build-)Dependency on libdata-alias-perl due
to patch from Rafael Kitover.
.
* doc/lintianrc.example:
+ [NT] Remove LINTIAN_LAB - most people will never need it.
.
* lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
+ [JW] Allow "." characters in manual page references.
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