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



Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

+1.  I use iff all the time.  I think it's common for people with a math
background.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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