Bug#883041: lintian: Strange no-op false positive of spelling-error-in-manpage

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.60
Severity: normal

Hi,

checking the screen package with lintian yields three (identical)
strange warnings which actually request a no-op change:

I: screen: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/screen.1.gz German German
I: screen: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/screen.1.gz German German
I: screen: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/screen.1.gz German German

See also https://lintian.debian.org/full/abe@debian.org.html#screen

I suspect that this is caused by one of these two lines, probably the
first one:

~/lintian/lintian → git grep German data
data/spelling/corrections:german||German
data/spelling/corrections-case:german||German

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  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 4.13.0-rc7-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                          2.29.1-9
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg                              1.19.0.4
ii  file                              1:5.32-1
ii  gettext                           0.19.8.1-4
ii  intltool-debian                   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.33
ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.59-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                     0.39-1
ii  libdigest-sha-perl                5.98-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.19.0.4
ii  libemail-valid-perl               1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.96-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.1-2
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl          0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.72-2
ii  libxml-simple-perl                2.24-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl              0.63-2+b2
ii  man-db                            2.7.6.1-4
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-2
ii  perl                              5.26.1-2
ii  t1utils                           1.41-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b4

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.29.1-9
ii  dpkg-dev               1.19.0.4
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.47-1

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