Bug#1019235: lintian: 'licence' is not a misspelling
Package: lintian Version: 2.115.3 Followup-For: Bug #1019235 X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de Spotted this too, please fix it, licence is proper English spelling, not oversea barbarian dialect. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') merged-usr: no Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils2.38.90.20220713-2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-5 ii diffstat1.64-1 ii dpkg1.21.9 ii dpkg-dev1.21.9 ii file1:5.41-4 ii gettext 0.21-9 ii gpg 2.2.39-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii iso-codes 4.11.0-1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-1+b2 ii libcapture-tiny-perl0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl1.19-4 ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b2 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-1 ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.32-1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl0.10-1.1 ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2 pn libdigest-sha-perl ii libdpkg-perl1.21.9 ii libemail-address-xs-perl1.05-1 ii libencode-perl 3.19-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl0.09-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-2 ii libfont-ttf-perl1.06-2 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-2 ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4 ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-1 ii libipc-run3-perl0.048-2 ii libjson-maybexs-perl1.004003-1 ii liblist-compare-perl0.55-1 ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl0.12-1 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-3 ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3 ii libmoox-aliases-perl0.001006-2 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.122-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1 ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.009-1+b1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b1 ii libregexp-wildcards-perl1.05-3 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.001+ds-1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.001+ds-1 ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-2 ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.27-1 ii libterm-readkey-perl2.38-2 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-1+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2 ii libtimedate-perl2.3300-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl0.62-1+b3 ii liburi-perl 5.12-1 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.15-1 ii libwww-perl 6.67-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl0.84+ds-1 ii lzip [lzip-decompressor]1.23-4 ii lzop1.04-2 ii man-db 2.10.2-3 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.34.0-5 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-27 ii xz-utils5.2.5-2.1 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch pn libtext-template-perl -- no debconf information
Bug#1019235: lintian: 'licence' is not a misspelling
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: tag -1 + confirmed pending Control: retitle -2 lintian: New spelling corrections should be automatically checked against an american and a british english dictionary Control: severity -2 wishlist Hi Andreas, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > 'licence' is a valid (mostly british) variant of license Yep, noticed this as well before I saw your bug report. Already fixed in https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/7d801b2c9c88683051afe0937b46f065cb8873a2 > Perhaps (new) spelling corrections should be automatically checked > against an american and a british english dictionary and carefully > reconsidered if they are found? Good idea! Cloning the bug report for that accordingly as this is a separate thing. Still don't have an idea how to actually do that, but I guess it will be part of the test suite, not a commit hook. > Without implying to delete all the matches (I haven't heard most of the > matching words and would need to look up their meaning...): > > $ grep -v ^# /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1 | > while read word ; do grep "^$word\$" /usr/share/dict/american-english > /usr/share/dict/british-english ; done Thanks for figuring out this nice little command! I though will try to optimize it to not call grep for each word but use something like: grep -Fw -f <(grep -v '^#' /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1) /usr/share/dict/american-english /usr/share/dict/british-english I now wonder if we should use wamerican/wbritish or wamerican-insane/wbritish-insane for that. Maybe wamerican/wbritish is a good start and if we still get too many false posiives, we can extend it to use wamerican-insane/wbritish-insane. (The latter will probably also take longer. But then again with my optimized query above it also just takes less than a second on a 7 year old laptop. And it yields about 350 hits.) Some comments about some of those you found: > /usr/share/dict/american-english:bellow > /usr/share/dict/british-english:bellow > /usr/share/dict/american-english:singed > /usr/share/dict/british-english:singed Would keep these. The chances that it is a misspelling of "below" or "signed" are IMHO much higher than the chance that it is used in Debian in its actual meaning. So in case we write a test for this, we should probably list exceptions we want to keep in that test. > /usr/share/dict/american-english:convertor > /usr/share/dict/british-english:convertor > /usr/share/dict/american-english:dependance > /usr/share/dict/american-english:dependant > /usr/share/dict/british-english:dependant > /usr/share/dict/american-english:extravert > /usr/share/dict/british-english:extravert > /usr/share/dict/american-english:extraverts > /usr/share/dict/british-english:extraverts > /usr/share/dict/american-english:licence > /usr/share/dict/british-english:licence > /usr/share/dict/american-english:miniscule > /usr/share/dict/british-english:miniscule > /usr/share/dict/american-english:venders > /usr/share/dict/american-english:vender > /usr/share/dict/american-english:want's > /usr/share/dict/british-english:want's These should probably be removed. They all look like alternative spellings, either historic or local. Not sure about the remaining ones. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
Bug#1019235: lintian: 'licence' is not a misspelling
Package: lintian Version: 2.115.3 Severity: normal 'licence' is a valid (mostly british) variant of license https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/licence Seen here: https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt (and quoted in src:nvidia-cuda-toolkit EULA.txt, i.e. d/license) Perhaps (new) spelling corrections should be automatically checked against an american and a british english dictionary and carefully reconsidered if they are found? Without implying to delete all the matches (I haven't heard most of the matching words and would need to look up their meaning...): $ grep -v ^# /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1 | while read word ; do grep "^$word\$" /usr/share/dict/american-english /usr/share/dict/british-english ; done /usr/share/dict/american-english:arrant /usr/share/dict/british-english:arrant /usr/share/dict/american-english:bellow /usr/share/dict/british-english:bellow /usr/share/dict/american-english:buss /usr/share/dict/british-english:buss /usr/share/dict/american-english:convertor /usr/share/dict/british-english:convertor /usr/share/dict/american-english:dependance /usr/share/dict/american-english:dependant /usr/share/dict/british-english:dependant /usr/share/dict/american-english:extravert /usr/share/dict/british-english:extravert /usr/share/dict/american-english:extraverts /usr/share/dict/british-english:extraverts /usr/share/dict/american-english:fount /usr/share/dict/british-english:fount /usr/share/dict/american-english:futz /usr/share/dict/british-english:futz /usr/share/dict/american-english:licence /usr/share/dict/british-english:licence /usr/share/dict/american-english:miniscule /usr/share/dict/british-english:miniscule /usr/share/dict/american-english:programers /usr/share/dict/american-english:programing /usr/share/dict/american-english:singed /usr/share/dict/british-english:singed /usr/share/dict/american-english:venders /usr/share/dict/american-english:vender /usr/share/dict/american-english:want's /usr/share/dict/british-english:want's /usr/share/dict/american-english:wont /usr/share/dict/british-english:wont Andreas
