Bug#865055: lintian: Falsly claims that "iff" is a spelling error

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.51
Severity: minor

Hi,

Lintian argues about the word "iff":

I: lynx: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/lynx iff if

But "iff" is a valid English word:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff

It's probably no common word, but still a valid word and should not be
reported as spelling error.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.28-6
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg                              1.18.24
ii  file                              1:5.30-1
ii  gettext                           0.19.8.1-2
ii  intltool-debian                   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.32
ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.59-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                     0.38-2+b1
ii  libdigest-sha-perl                5.96-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.18.24
ii  libemail-valid-perl               1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1-3
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl          0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.71-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl              0.63-2
ii  man-db                            2.7.6.1-2
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-2
ii  perl                              5.24.1-3
ii  t1utils                           1.39-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.2+b1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b2

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.28-6
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.24
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1

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