Bug#818003: lintian: spurious povray: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/povray ressize resize

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Jakub Wilk:
> Hi Andreas!
> 
> Thanks for the bug report.
> 
> * Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>, 2016-03-12, 17:23:
>> on the povray package I'm going to upload soon, I get a spurious
>> lintian warning:
>>
>>    povray: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/povray ressize resize
>>
>> but I cannot find the misspelled 'ressize' string neither in the
>> binary nor in the source.
> 
> (I don't know where to get the version you're going to upload soon, so I
> took a look at 1:3.7.0.0-8, which apparently triggers the same bug.)
> 
> The string that makes Lintian unhappy is:
> 
> res.size() == static_cast<size_type>(w)
> 
> This is of course false positive. I don't know why Lintian glued "res"
> and "size" together despite the dot between them...
> 

I doubt that is the case.  The "spelling-error-in-binary" tag uses
"strings -a" to get all strings and then checks those against its
dictionary.

Thanks,
~Niels