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

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> 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.

Especially should lintian then also argue about itself:

~/lintian/lintian → git grep -E \\biff\\b -- lib
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# Takes two elements and returns true iff the second can be deduced from the
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:        # If p is negated and q isn't, q is a subset of p iff none of the
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# two elements.  Takes two elements and returns true iff the falsehood of
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# returns true iff the falsehood of the second can be deduced from the truth
~/lintian/lintian → 

		SCNR, Axel

P.S.: I'm fixing this now in Git as there were more people annoyed by
this false positive on IRC (#debian-perl).

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