Him Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > 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. [...] > "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".
I think that "every file" is a little bit overzealous. I'd restrict it to packaging (i.e. the debian/ directory) and explicitly exclude the file debian/copyright as any appearance of the word "legal" or "illegal" in there is very likely a valid (sic!) usage. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE