Re: lintian: spelling

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Jerome BENOIT:
> Hello Forum, is there a list where we can deal on how correct spelling error as detected by lintian ?
> 
> For the curious. In the source, there is the sentence:
> 
> 	:param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow to be stuck
> 
> 
> and lintian complains as follows:
> 
> 	allow to allow one to
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any hint is welcome,
> Jerome
> 

Hi,

The following might be useful:

Quote http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/linux/esl.html#b1:
> B1: disallowed!
> 
> This one crops up so often I'm putting it right at the top.
> 
> You can't “allow to” do something (as in “this option allows to compile code”).  You can say that “this option allows you to compile code”, or “this option allows code compilation”, or even “this option allows code to be compiled”; but if there's no object immediately after the verb, it's almost certainly ungrammatical (and the same goes for “permit to”).  Native‐anglophone readers will know what you mean, but they'll also suspect you've got a funny accent.
> 
> Besides, unless the software is something like PAM, how likely is it that it literally “allows” me to do something otherwise forbidden?  It enables or simplifies doing things, or helps me do them, or simply does them. 


Thanks,
~Niels