Package: lintian Version: 2.5.13 Severity: minor Lintian is overly eager with spelling-error-in-binary. In one one package, the string I9\$ teH would randomly appear in the output of "strings /path/to/binary" (which to my understanding is used by lintian to test for spelling errors) depending on how the planets were aligned at build time; and lintian would report it as a mispelling of "the". However, the surounding strings were nothing but garbage: |$`H I9\$ I9\$ teH $uQL) u;M) and seeing that the sequence 'teH' randomly occurred in the built binaries, overriding it caused unused override warnings whenever it didn't occur. Please make lintian less eager with it's spelling-error-in-binary warning. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-8 ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 ii diffstat 1.55-3 ii file 1:5.14-2 ii gettext 0.18.2.1-1 ii hardening-includes 2.3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.28 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.34-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.10 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.3-7 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.19-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b2 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.14.2-21 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- |_)|_/ Ryan Kavanagh | Debian Developer | \| \ http://ryanak.ca/ | GPG Key 4A11C97A
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature