Le mardi 13 novembre 2018 à 17:33 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Dear Sébastien, > > Quoting Sébastien Villemot (2018-11-13 16:34:05) > > Le mardi 13 novembre 2018 à 16:12 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > > I consider lintian an _aid_ but not authoritative. > > > > I tend to consider lintian authoritative when there is no “higher > > source of law” (such as the Policy, DevRef, team policies…). > > Ok, so we agree that Debian Policy is more authoritative than lintian. > > Debian Policy states § 2.4 says this about section definitions: > > > For more information about the sections and their definitions, see the > > list of sections in unstable. > > > The web page https://packages.debian.org/unstable/ says this about > section "localization": > > > Localization support for big software packages. > > ...and this about section "text": > > > Utilities to format and print text documents. > > > It seems sensible to me that hunspell dictionaries are treated as > utilites to process text documents rather than localization support. > > Localization is specific to mapping internationalization strings into a > local context - purpos of a dictionary is far more general than that - > and it seems all other maintainers of hunspell dictionaries besides you > came to that same conclusion.
On the other hand, the main usage of dictionaries is to correct spelling within the context of _localized_ text editors. So it's not absurd to consider that their main purpose is localization, though I agree that they may be used in other contexts. All in all, I don't have a strong opinion on this issue, and I'm not willing to make the reverse move as long as lintian advocates section localization. As already said, I consider that you should be the one filing a bug against lintian, since you have a much stronger opinion than me on this topic. FYI, bug #874121 contains the patch that implemented this lintian tag, but unfortunately it contains no justification for it. Best, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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