Axel Beckert <[email protected]> writes: > One point though:
> I have an upstream developer who comes from Derby, England originally > and says that some of the accused misspellings[1] are not very common > English but nevertheless correct English -- and of course that he won't > change them in his documentation. > [1] > http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/[email protected]#dphys-config > In particular he says that "usefull" and "authentification" are correct > spellings. > So maybe these warnings should be downgraded to the informational level, > and the appropriate lintian rule could be called > uncommon-spelling-in-manpage or so instead. > Or are lintian overrides the better way to handle this? My policy for varient spellings in dispute is to check the OED for British spellings and Merriam-Webster for US spellings (since I have easy access to both) and allow anything they allow. Neither permits either usefull or authentification, and I think too obscure for the OED is too obscure for Lintian to accept since it's the dictionary of record for UK English. So I think an override is the best approach in this situation, if your upstream doesn't find the OED persuasive. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
