Raphael Geissert <atom...@gmail.com> writes: > Attached mbox contains patches adding a collection script to gather the > output of the 'strings' command on the ELF binaries of a package, and > spell checks its output. The collection script is also needed to > implement the check for statically linking to zlib, within others.
You have to run strings -a if you're going to implement that, at which point I think chances are pretty high that you're going to get false positives from the spell checking part. I don't really like trying to spell-check the strings inside binaries. It's an interesting idea, but I think it's highly prone to false positives. We're currently assuming that everything we're spell-checking is English text. Binaries may contain different hyphenation or non-English words that happen to match one of our corrections. > The elf-index file was originally being generated so that it could be > possible to iterate over the elf files without having to look for them > in the file-info index. Maybe it should die if nobody finds a use for > it. This seems useful to me; I'll leave it in now in case we need it. I'm applying the collection script, modified to add -a and exclude anything in /usr/lib/debug. I've not applied the spelling check part. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
