Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.1
The new lintian is scoring about 50% for me at the moment.
It is quite correct in asking for 'allows to' to be changed to
'allows one to'. At least I can think of no counter examples.
However it goes too far in
Nicholas Bamber nicho...@periapt.co.uk writes:
However it goes too far in asking for 'helps to' - 'helps one to'. In
all the examples I have seen or can think of, both are grammatically
correct but the one without is more appropriate. Adding 'one' makes it
sounds long-winded and pompous.
severity 622124 normal
thanks
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 13:33 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.1
I'm unsure why this issue is release-critical, nor how the general
policy discussion on man pages is a justification for
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