Raphael Geissert <atomo64+deb...@gmail.com> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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. > Not true; I've already tried without -a and successfully matched the zlib > version string. Hm, you hadn't mentioned that you were going to take that approach, and that isn't the approach laid out in that bug report. The concern I have there is false negatives on embedded versions of zlib that don't happen to include the static version string. It seems like a fairly natural thing to get rid of, and slightly modified versions of zlib are a common problem. What specific string are you looking for? We could try using both methods against the entire archive and make sure they find the same thing. > I checked many packages and didn't find any false positive. In any case, > it could be implemented as an experimental check. I'm okay with implementing it as an experimental check *if* we don't need to use strings -a, but I'm not convinced that's the case. (Basically, I just don't think this check is particularly important. It has some minor benefits, but I think it's much less important than accurately detecting embedded copies of zlib.) > By the way, pusling mentioned on IRC that we should take care of telling > the maintainer how to correctly fix the mistakes without fuzzing the > translations. For this all is needed is fix the mistakes in the msgid's > of the .po files as well. I don't believe anything that Lintian currently spell-checks is translated. I don't remember off-hand why we don't spell-check debconf templates. I have some vague memory that it was for a specific reason, not just because no one had thought of it, but I don't recall the reason. -- 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
