Bug#1019235: lintian: 'licence' is not a misspelling
Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: normal
'licence' is a valid (mostly british) variant of license
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/licence
Seen here:
https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt
(and quoted in src:nvidia-cuda-toolkit EULA.txt, i.e. d/license)
Perhaps (new) spelling corrections should be automatically checked
against an american and a british english dictionary and carefully
reconsidered if they are found?
Without implying to delete all the matches (I haven't heard most of the
matching words and would need to look up their meaning...):
$ grep -v ^# /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1 | while read word ; do grep "^$word\$" /usr/share/dict/american-english /usr/share/dict/british-english ; done
/usr/share/dict/american-english:arrant
/usr/share/dict/british-english:arrant
/usr/share/dict/american-english:bellow
/usr/share/dict/british-english:bellow
/usr/share/dict/american-english:buss
/usr/share/dict/british-english:buss
/usr/share/dict/american-english:convertor
/usr/share/dict/british-english:convertor
/usr/share/dict/american-english:dependance
/usr/share/dict/american-english:dependant
/usr/share/dict/british-english:dependant
/usr/share/dict/american-english:extravert
/usr/share/dict/british-english:extravert
/usr/share/dict/american-english:extraverts
/usr/share/dict/british-english:extraverts
/usr/share/dict/american-english:fount
/usr/share/dict/british-english:fount
/usr/share/dict/american-english:futz
/usr/share/dict/british-english:futz
/usr/share/dict/american-english:licence
/usr/share/dict/british-english:licence
/usr/share/dict/american-english:miniscule
/usr/share/dict/british-english:miniscule
/usr/share/dict/american-english:programers
/usr/share/dict/american-english:programing
/usr/share/dict/american-english:singed
/usr/share/dict/british-english:singed
/usr/share/dict/american-english:venders
/usr/share/dict/american-english:vender
/usr/share/dict/american-english:want's
/usr/share/dict/british-english:want's
/usr/share/dict/american-english:wont
/usr/share/dict/british-english:wont
Andreas
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