Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: <snip/> > The current spelling check isn't line-based, but maybe we could make it a > bit smarter so that it ignores spelling errors in the changelog entry if > the word "spelling" occurs on the same line. This won't catch all cases > like yours, but might reduce false positives. <snip/> Sounds good to me. Perhaps it would be helpful to document this behaviour prominently in the 'lintian -i' output? Something like this: N: Lintian found a spelling error in the latest entry of the Debian N: changelog. Lintian has a list of common misspellings that it looks N: for. It does not have a dictionary like a spelling checker does. N: If you use the wrong spelling by intention, you can avoid this N: warning by using the phrase 'spelling' in the same line, e.g.: N: * Fix spelling: publically -> publicly Ideally, the example could dynamically use the spelling error which triggered it. Andreas Hoenen <andreas.hoenen@arcor.de>
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