Bug#831449: lintian on Sid amd64 reports volatile false spelling errors in binaries

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>]

* Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, 2018-01-24, 08:04:
> > I'm not sure what to do about it on Lintian side. Perhaps we should 
> > spell-check only long (say, >= 12 bytes) strings in binaries?
> Wouldn't that mean we would only find spelling problems for very long 
> words?

No, not necessarily. For example, if this sentence were embedded in a 
binary, Lintain would find the misspelling: even though the misspelled 
word is short, it's part of a longer chunk of text, which would be 
spell-checked.

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Jakub Wilk