Harry Rickards <hricka...@l33tmyst.com> writes:

> When using -E on a package with convertor in it's binary, lintian reports the
> following:
> X: lives: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/lib/lives/lives-exe convertor
> converter

> However convertor is a valid english word. See
> http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=convertor.

I'm afraid those dictionaries are wrong, at least as dictionaries are
normally judged.  The word is converter per both Merriam-Webster and the
Oxford English Dictionary.  The OED specifically lists convertor as an
erroneous spelling.

-- 
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

Reply via email to