Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> writes: > lintian warns about using writeable instead of writable: > exim4-base: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man8/exim.8.gz writeable > writable
> Please drop this check, writeable seems to be a correct way of > spelling this (at least in the UK). > https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20120519.191737.1cddbff4.en.html Well, as stated in that message, writable is preferred, but yes, it doesn't appear to be an error in UK English. > Imho lintian should only warn about spelling if it there is absolutely > no doubt the used spelling is wrong. There's absolutely no doubt that "writeable" is wrong in US English. :) I suspect we added it without checking the OED or another British source. I agree with removing it. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
