Bug#816599: lintian: false-positive spelling error 'homogenous'

IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> My dictionary (American Heritage) says 'homogenous' is an acceptable spelling >> of 'homogeneous', and it's how I pronounce the word. > > So I did a quick check, and Merriam-Webster [1] seems to allow the > 'homogenous' > spelling as well. > Other sources [2] even

Bug#810649: lintian: maintainer-name-missing leads to Perl error

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.39.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Using lintian on one of the .deb files provided by the htmltidy upstream¹ gives a lot of warnings about flaws in their efforts to debianise the software, but also outputs a Perl error: $ lintian tidy-5.1.25-64bit.deb [...] E:

Bug#795158: explain spelling-error-in-description for 'allow to'

Niels Thykier wrote: The spelling-error-in-description correction Allow to - Allow one to is hard to understand without further explanation. @English: Do you have a suggestion for how we explain this simpler than the below? I suspect the long (sentence theoretical) explanation is not

Re: Review of new/changed lintian tag descriptions

Justin B Rye wrote: Sorry, no patch yet - I've found the git repository, but I ran out of time before I could work out how to check things out of it. I think I've got the hang of it. git diff patch attached (including a general sweep for unhyphenated uses of non). -- JBR

Bug#732799: lintian: description debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature tag

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.4 Followup-For: Bug #732799 I noticed your fix still contains a typo: gregor herrmann wrote: Proposed patch against git: [...] - - the upstream tar using crytpographic signature. + upstream tarball using crytpographic signature.

Bug#681527: lintian: suggested extra spelling checks

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10 Severity: wishlist I was a little surprised to notice that Lintian doesn't already have a check to correct priviledge to privilege. I've seen this error in for instance the long descriptions for apf (#679007) and preload, the README files for beep and piuparts,

Bug#540156: lintian: New feature - Check debian/control::Description for upcase starting word

Jari Aalto wrote: Description: Simple and easy to use addressbook ... SUGGESTION Add a --pedantic check for capitalized first word in Description field. Pedantic and very uncertain, since it's only sentential punctuation that's deprecated, not lexically capitalised or

Bug#376119: lintian: perm2oct() can't handle --S--S--T

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.21 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line *** The lintian check-scripts: /usr/share/lintian/checks/{control-files,files,menus,shared-libs} ...each define a perm2oct function to allow them to convert a ls-style string like