Bug#931183: Incorrect complaints about duplicate words in patch descriptions
Package: lintian
Version: 2.15.0
Severity: normal
Looking through the lintian reports for the grub2 source package at
https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-grub-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net.html#grub2
I can see a couple of errors reported as
"spelling-error-in-patch-description" which are really not correct. In
each case, there's a word at the end of the Subject: line in an
upstream patch, and then the same word is used to start the next
sentence in the first paragraph of the longer text of the patch
description:
* debian/patches/mkconfig_ubuntu_distributor.patch Ubuntu Ubuntu
(duplicate word) Ubuntu
* debian/patches/tests-disable-sercon-in-seabios.patch SeaBIOS
SeaBIOS (duplicate word) SeaBIOS
This is clearly incorrect - word matching should not cross into new
paragraphs/sentences.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-16
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9
ii diffstat 1.62-1
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii file 1:5.35-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9
ii gpg 2.2.12-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.28.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-16
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1
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