Bug#526435: lintian: [checks/binaries.desc] Please add to the description that the case of the string can be different
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.10 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** I spend quite some time yesterday of finding a sting which was in all CAPS. Please add some comment to the description that the string reported might be found in any variant of capitization. Maybe also a add comment on how to find the string yourself, i.e. use strings binary | grep -i string. Kind regards Paul -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.46-1produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.26 Debian package development tools ii file 5.00-1Determines file type using magic ii gettext0.17-6GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libipc-run-perl0.82-1Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarchnone (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl none (no description available) ii man-db2.5.5-1on-line manual pager -- no debconf information signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#526435: lintian: [checks/binaries.desc] Please add to the description that the case of the string can be different
tag 526435 patch thanks Hi Paul, Paul Gevers wrote: I spend quite some time yesterday of finding a sting which was in all CAPS. Please add some comment to the description that the string reported might be found in any variant of capitization. Maybe also a add comment on how to find the string yourself, i.e. use strings binary | grep -i string. Good idea, thanks. The new description proposed in the attached patch follows: N: spelling-error-in-binary N: N: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list N: of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a N: dictionary like a spelling checker does. For lintian's convenience all N: words are normalised to lower case. N: N: If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the N: help of gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the N: translations as well as the English text to avoid making the N: translations fuzzy. With gettext, for example, this means you should N: also fix the spelling mistake in the corresponding msgids in the *.po N: files. N: N: To find the original word you can run: N: N: strings binary | grep -i word N: N: You can often find the word in the source code by running: N: N: grep -r '\boriginal-word\b' source-tree Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net lintian-spelling_desc.mbox Description: application/mbox
Bug#526435: lintian: [checks/binaries.desc] Please add to the description that the case of the string can be different
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:32 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Paul Gevers wrote: I spend quite some time yesterday of finding a sting which was in all CAPS. Please add some comment to the description that the string reported might be found in any variant of capitization. Maybe also a add comment on how to find the string yourself, i.e. use strings binary | grep -i string. Good idea, thanks. The new description proposed in the attached patch follows: Applied, thanks (with only one small tweak, to s/lintian/Lintian/ :-) N: To find the original word you can run: N: N: strings binary | grep -i word N: N: You can often find the word in the source code by running: N: N: grep -r '\boriginal-word\b' source-tree Shouldn't that be grep -ir? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
