Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The word "(il)legal" is too often used in a wrong sense, both in documentation, diagnostic messages, and in a code as a part of a name of an identifier. This should be changed to a correct name, like "(in)valid", which is mentioned in the "GNU Coding Standard" and which is just common sense. "Lintian" should therefor search for this text string in every file and report it. Files with all correct use of "(il)legal" can then later be put on the "overrides" list, if they are unchanged from the last run of "lintian". -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt11-u5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii gettext 0.19.3-2 ii hardening-includes 2.6 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.25 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii patchutils 0.3.3-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii t1utils 1.38-4 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.25 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 pn libyaml-perl <none> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 -- Configuration Files: /etc/lintianrc changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- Bjarni I. Gislason
