Bug#968416: lintian: Gives ridiculous warning about spelling in overrides file
Package: lintian
Version: 2.88.0
Severity: normal
While preparing a new upload of the super package, I noticed that
lintian started to show the following ridiculous warning about
spelling in a line that is supposed to explain why lintian is
wrong with its "typo in manual page" warning.
W: super: spelling-in-override-comment typo-in-manual-page (line 3) "allow to" "allow one to"
Here is the full content of lintian-overrides:
super: setuid-binary usr/bin/super 4755 root/root
# "...changes root's default setting from default-allow to default-deny..."
super: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man5/super.tab.5.gz allow to allow one to
Please note that the warning is talking about "(line 3)" while the
actual problem lies in line 2. I've lost some time to discover this.
But to be honest. I have no idea, why lintian even checks spelling of the
overrides files. The files are not supposed to be read by regular users,
so what's the point of checking spelling there? And BTW. are you going
to check spelling of comments in source code files as well? I'm pretty
sure you can find a lot of spelling typos there...
Regards,
robert
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (990, 'unstable-debug'), (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
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