Bug#622124: lintian: overzealous spell checking is actually wrong in one casse

2011-04-10 Thread Nicholas Bamber
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

Bug#622124: lintian: overzealous spell checking is actually wrong in one casse

2011-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
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.

Bug#622124: lintian: overzealous spell checking is actually wrong in one casse

2011-04-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
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