[Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker of English.] * Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net>, 2016-10-21, 01:36:
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
Lintian complains about "allow to" because "allow" requires an object, and in most cases[*] this object goes between "allow" and "to". But here, "number of rounds" is the object. IOW, this line could be paraphrased as:
We allow $max_no_dec rounds to be stuck.I'm not sure if there's a way to fix Lintian to avoid this kind of false positives. Maybe debian-l10n-english@ would know?
[*] I've seen dozens (or maybe even hundreds) of instances of "allow(s) to" when spell-checking random software, and it's the first time I see when it's not a mistake.
-- Jakub Wilk