Jakub Wilk: > Hi Andreas! > > Thanks for the bug report. > > * Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>, 2016-03-12, 17:23: >> on the povray package I'm going to upload soon, I get a spurious >> lintian warning: >> >> povray: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/povray ressize resize >> >> but I cannot find the misspelled 'ressize' string neither in the >> binary nor in the source. > > (I don't know where to get the version you're going to upload soon, so I > took a look at 1:3.7.0.0-8, which apparently triggers the same bug.) > > The string that makes Lintian unhappy is: > > res.size() == static_cast<size_type>(w) > > This is of course false positive. I don't know why Lintian glued "res" > and "size" together despite the dot between them... >
I doubt that is the case. The "spelling-error-in-binary" tag uses "strings -a" to get all strings and then checks those against its dictionary. Thanks, ~Niels
