Re: lintian: spelling
Hello Sean, thanks for your reply.
On 21/10/16 02:43, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:36:41AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> For the curious. In the source, there is the sentence:
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>> :param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow to be stuck
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>>
>> and lintian complains as follows:
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>> allow to allow one to
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>>
>> I am not a native English speaker, but I guess that the suggested substitution is not valid.
>> But on the other hand, I have no idea on how to reshape the sentence.
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> I'm a native English speaker, but I can't answer without more
> information about what the function does (what is being stuck?).
I am packaging fpylll [1], a Python wrapper for the fpLLL C++ library.
The involved function is related to the Block Korkine Zolotarev (BKZ) algorithm.
>
> Anyway, the proper list for this is debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org
Ok. I am not sure that they can help here because of the math context.
Anyway, I will ask to the upstream maintainer.
Thanks,
Jerome
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[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841005
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