Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Andrew Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 21 January 2008 07:45, Russ Allbery wrote: >> glib is a regular English word, so I'll leave that one off in fear of >> false positives. I now have the rest. > Whilst glib is an English word, it's not a word that's likely to be used > in pack

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Monday 21 January 2008 07:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > >> Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something > >> like the following: > >> > >> * glib -> GL

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Russ Allbery wrote: > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Also, what about checking debconf templates? I think that the >>> probability of false positives there is quite low as long as you take >>> care to check "Description" only ("_Description", indeed). > >> That check would lead to fa

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Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also, what about checking debconf templates? I think that the >> probability of false positives there is quite low as long as you take >> care to check "Description" only ("_Description", indeed). > That check would lead to false positives where a command

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> Also, what about checking debconf templates? I think that the > probability of false positives there is quite low as long as you take > care to check "Description" only ("_Description", indeed). That check would lead to false positives where a command is the same as a project name, because there

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

openldap -> OpenLDAP Openldap -> OpenLDAP OpenLdap -> OpenLDAP I haven't checked if these mistakes are often used or not, though. Just popped in my mind while working on OpenLDAP debconf templates..(which have no error of course). Also, what about checking debconf templates? I think that the prob

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Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would "Emacs" and "XEmacs" qualify for this check? > > Even though "emacs" may make sense when talking about the command (while I > really wonder why one would mention a command in a package > description), checking for incorrect "EMacs" spelling wou

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Would "Emacs" and "XEmacs" qualify for this check? Even though "emacs" may make sense when talking about the command (while I really wonder why one would mention a command in a package description), checking for incorrect "EMacs" spelling would be good. Please note that I found no proposal to che

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something >> like the following: >> * glib -> GLib > * Glib -> GLib glib is a regular English word, so I'll lea

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

* Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-12 18:57]: > I gues SLang could safely be added, but adding some packages as exceptions > would > mean changes to lintian every time a new packages (correctly) uses slang, > which > would even mean that this should be done before some new package

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

> * Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-12 09:11]: > > > Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The name of the S-Lang library is sometimes wrongly spelled as "slang". It > > > would be good to have this fixed but if you add a rule slang -> S-Lang in > > > Lintian you will hit

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-12 09:11]: > Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The name of the S-Lang library is sometimes wrongly spelled as "slang". It > > would be good to have this fixed but if you add a rule slang -> S-Lang in > > Lintian you will hit some false p

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Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-07 23:54]: >> So if you notice any common misspelled words that Lintian doesn't catch, >> please let debian-lint-maint know and we'll add them to the table. > The name of the S-Lang library is sometimes w

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

* Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-07 23:54]: > So if you notice any common misspelled words that Lintian doesn't catch, > please let debian-lint-maint know and we'll add them to the table. The name of the S-Lang library is sometimes wrongly spelled as "slang". It would be good to have t

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:51:42AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Could you please add GLib, GObject, GTK+, GConf, GnomeVFS and GStreamer to the list? Just to help Russ out here, but he already described how capitalisation checking currently work in lintian. To re-ite

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Mon, 07 Jan 08 20:06, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly spell > some project names, mainly because of capitalisation. > For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnome, > when its right spelling: GNOME. Other

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:25:17 +0100 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 13:54 +, Neil Williams a écrit : > > GnomeVFS is used by GNOME but it does not require GNOME itself. It > > isn't a "part of GNOME" > > Erm, GnomeVFS is a key part of the GNOME platf

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Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 13:54 +, Neil Williams a écrit : > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:33:35 +0100 > Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not a GNOME expert, but is there any reason why a GNOME component > > capitalise differently GNOME? Historical reasons, I guess. > GnomeVFS is

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Maybe also something along tetex -> teTeX Tetex -> teTeX TeTeX -> teTeX (but any mention of teTeX, bless its memory, is probably a bug anyway) tex[-]*live -> TeX Live TeX[-]*live -> TeX Live TeX[-]*Live -> TeX Live and even TEX[^tT] -> TeX which may give many semi-false positives: Lots of thi

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:33:35 +0100 Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * gnomevfs -> GnomeVFS > > * gnome-vfs -> GnomeVFS > > * GNOME VFS -> GnomeVFS > > * Gnome VFS -> GnomeVFS > > * Gnome-VFS -> GnomeVFS > > * GnomeVfs -> GnomeVFS > > * Gnome-Vfs -> GnomeVFS > > I'm not a

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Hi all! On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:13:25 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something >> like the following: > >> * gnomevfs -> GnomeVFS > * gnome-vfs -> GnomeVFS >

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Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > Regarding the list above I would guess that what you want is something > like the following: > > * glib -> GLib * Glib -> GLib > * gobject -> GObject * Gobject -> GObject > * gtk+ -> GTK+ * GTK -> GTK+ > * gconf ->

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:51:42AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Could you please add GLib, GObject, GTK+, GConf, GnomeVFS and GStreamer > to the list? Just to help Russ out here, but he already described how capitalisation checking currently work in lintian. To re-iterate: it does *not* check

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Hi, Le lundi 07 janvier 2008 à 20:06 -0600, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly spell > some project names, mainly because of capitalisation. > For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnome, > when its right

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Why do you think "debian package" is proper capitalisation? What does > > the word "debian" refer to in that term, if not Debian? > > A package format. That format is called "the Debian package format", surely? -- \ "

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Ben Finney wrote: > Why do you think "debian package" is proper capitalisation? What does > the word "debian" refer to in that term, if not Debian? A package format. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions > > incorrectly spell some project names, mainly because of > > capitalisation. [...] > > I can't help but roll my eyes at this. There are so many valid reasons > to write "

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:36:50PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly spell > > some project names, mainly because of capitalisation. > > For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnom

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Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't help but roll my eyes at this. There are so many valid reasons > to write "linux", "debian", or even "gnome" or "xerox"^W"kde". You can find > some good in examples in the descriptions of devscripts and debhelper > ("debian/", "debian package") whic

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Raphael Geissert wrote: > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly spell > some project names, mainly because of capitalisation. > For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnome, > when its right spelling: GNOME. Other project names such as De

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> BTW, the way that the Lintian spell-checking works is that it looks for >> errors rather than looking for each word in a dictionary. It has a >> table of pairs of error and correct wo

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > BTW, the way that the Lintian spell-checking works is that it looks for > errors rather than looking for each word in a dictionary. It has a table > of pairs of error and correct word. So if you notice any common > misspelled words t

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:07:14AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On lun, 2008-01-07 at 20:06 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly > > spell > > some project names, mainly because of capitalisation. > > For example GNOME is being

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > May I suggest adding some other project names which capitalization is > not always obvious. Others can probably add more of these, but at > least, coming to my mind right now: > > Python > MySQL > PostgreSQL Added to Lintian, along with the postgres

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you add Xfce to the list? This is the correct spelling, not XFce > nor XFCE. Added to Lintian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

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Quoting Raphael Geissert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply gnome, > when its right spelling: GNOME. Other project names such as Debian, KDE and > Linux aren't being correctly capitalised. > > Neil Williams has requested me on #456495 to s

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

On lun, 2008-01-07 at 20:06 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Some weeks ago I noticed that some package descriptions incorrectly > spell > some project names, mainly because of capitalisation. > For example GNOME is being spelt in some packages as Gnome, or simply > gnome, > when its right spelling

Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names

Raphael Geissert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Starting with lintian v1.23.42 the spelling check also looks for the > correct spelling of the above mentioned project names (requested at > #456582). Because I made an archive wide lintian check (except for arch > all packages) with the latest linti