Bug#865055: lintian: Falsly claims that "iff" is a spelling error

[Russ Allbery]

Axel Beckert  writes:

> Lintian argues about the word "iff":

> I: lynx: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/lynx iff if

> But "iff" is a valid English word:

> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff

> It's probably no common word, but still a valid word and should not be
> reported as spelling error.

+1.  I use iff all the time.  I think it's common for people with a math
background.

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[abe] data/spelling/corrections: Remove valid word "iff"

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[lintian] branch master updated (e554206 -> f16f4c7)

[Axel Beckert]

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

abe pushed a change to branch master
in repository lintian.

  from  e554206   spelling: Add another correction
   new  f16f4c7   data/spelling/corrections: Remove valid word "iff"

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Summary of changes:
 data/spelling/corrections | 1 -
 debian/changelog  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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[lintian] 01/01: data/spelling/corrections: Remove valid word "iff"

[Axel Beckert]

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

abe pushed a commit to branch master
in repository lintian.

commit f16f4c7384543b56f576b22449934978bb2645ff
Author: Axel Beckert 
Date:   Mon Jun 19 21:18:26 2017 +0200

data/spelling/corrections: Remove valid word "iff"

Closes: #865055
---
 data/spelling/corrections | 1 -
 debian/changelog  | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/data/spelling/corrections b/data/spelling/corrections
index 209a671..bb8b2c0 100644
--- a/data/spelling/corrections
+++ b/data/spelling/corrections
@@ -1872,7 +1872,6 @@ idicated||indicated
 idicate||indicate
 idicates||indicates
 idicating||indicating
-iff||if
 igored||ignored
 igore||ignore
 igores||ignores
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8f1a1d8..960a1f7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ lintian (2.5.52) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * commands/lintian.pm:
 + [NT] Attempt to clean up on SIGTERM (like with SIGINT).
 
+  * data/spelling/corrections:
++ [AB] Remove "iff". It's a valid English word. (Closes: #865055)
+
   * lib/Lintian/Util.pm:
 + [NT] Fix uninitialized warning if a fork call fails.
 

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Bug#865055: lintian: Falsly claims that "iff" is a spelling error

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Lintian argues about the word "iff":
> 
> I: lynx: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/lynx iff if
> 
> But "iff" is a valid English word:
> 
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iff
> 
> It's probably no common word, but still a valid word and should not be
> reported as spelling error.

Especially should lintian then also argue about itself:

~/lintian/lintian → git grep -E \\biff\\b -- lib
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# Takes two elements and returns true iff the second 
can be deduced from the
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# If p is negated and q isn't, q is a subset of 
p iff none of the
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# two elements.  Takes two elements and returns true 
iff the falsehood of
lib/Lintian/Relation.pm:# returns true iff the falsehood of the second can be 
deduced from the truth
~/lintian/lintian → 

SCNR, Axel

P.S.: I'm fixing this now in Git as there were more people annoyed by
this false positive on IRC (#debian-perl).

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[lintian] branch master updated (84597c4 -> e554206)

[Paul Wise]

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

pabs pushed a change to branch master
in repository lintian.

  from  84597c4   c/lintian.pm: Clean up on SIGTERM
   new  e554206   spelling: Add another correction

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Summary of changes:
 data/spelling/corrections | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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[lintian] 01/01: spelling: Add another correction

[Paul Wise]

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

pabs pushed a commit to branch master
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commit e554206116477dc1e68ae17f20b97a8ae577997e
Author: Paul Wise 
Date:   Mon Jun 19 18:28:13 2017 +0800

spelling: Add another correction
---
 data/spelling/corrections | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/data/spelling/corrections b/data/spelling/corrections
index a53cd8f..209a671 100644
--- a/data/spelling/corrections
+++ b/data/spelling/corrections
@@ -2944,6 +2944,7 @@ psaswd||passwd
 psuedo||pseudo
 psychadelic||psychedelic
 pusehd||pushed
+pyton||python
 qouted||quoted
 qoute||quote
 qoutes||quotes

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