Re: Ardour lintian-overrides for spelling errors

[Dennis Braun <d_braun@kabelmail.de>]

Hi Erich,

these "spelling errors" in lintian-overrides are false positives.

Best regards,
Dennis

Am 29.09.21 um 23:01 schrieb Erich Eickmeyer:
> Hi team,
>
> I synced Ardour 6.9 after beta freeze to Ubuntu, which required a review.
> Steve Langasek (vorlon), a Debian developer who is also one of the Ubuntu
> Archive Admins (and may very well be the top guy) pointed this out:
>
> > <vorlon> Eickmeyer: so this is not a release-blocking issue by any means, but
> > I think it's absurd that the ardour Debian release has added lintian
> > overrides for spelling errors in the source code, in the same upload that it
> > has updated a patch called debian/patches/0200-spelling.patch do address
> > additional spelling errors
> So, in the name of correctness, we should get these lintian-overrides figured
> out in a patch to address any spelling errors as opposed to merely overriding
> them. I'd probably help out with this, but I'm lacking time and health at the
> moment (nothing serious).
>
> Thanks,
> Erich