retitle 588661 spelling-error-in-binary misreports non-ASCII strings severity 588661 minor tags 588661 confirmed thanks
Benjamin Drung <bdr...@ubuntu.com> writes: > vlc 1.1.0-3 gets a spelling-error-in-binary ment meant information for > the name Clément. This is a false positive. This is indeed a problem, but I looked at it for a while and I'm not sure that it's fixable. The problem is that we generate the list of strings in the binary using the program strings, which doesn't have a mode for picking up UTF-8-encoded strings. The options are either to only grab ASCII or to grab any string of 8-bit characters that doesn't involve control characters. The latter, while doing the right thing here, would produce a prohibitive volume of output that would need to be checked and would end up making Lintian quite slow. I'm lowering the severity of the bug to minor because this is why it's marked as wild-guess, but leaving it open since it's definitely a bug. I'll add a note to the tag description saying that this is a known problem. -- 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
