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Lintian reported typos in binaries #381

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rdmark opened this issue Aug 19, 2023 · 1 comment
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Lintian reported typos in binaries #381

rdmark opened this issue Aug 19, 2023 · 1 comment

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rdmark commented Aug 19, 2023

lintian reports against netatalk2 codebase:

I: netatalk: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/dbd exlusive exclusive
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I: spelling-error-in-binary
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N:   Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list
N:   of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a
N:   dictionary like a spelling checker does.
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N:   If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the
N:   help of gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the
N:   translations as well as the English text to avoid making the
N:   translations fuzzy. With gettext, for example, this means you should
N:   also fix the spelling mistake in the corresponding msgids in the *.po
N:   files.
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N:   You can often find the word in the source code by running:
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N:    grep -rw <word> <source-tree>
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N:   This tag may produce false positives for words that contain non-ASCII
N:   characters due to limitations in strings.
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N:   Severity: info
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N:   Check: binaries
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I: netatalk: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/netatalk/uams_gss.so tyring trying
I: netatalk: spelling-error-in-binary usr/sbin/afpd continous continuous
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rdmark commented Aug 19, 2023

One typo shared with netatalk3:

I: netatalk: spelling-error-in-binary retured returned [usr/sbin/afpd]
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N:   Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list of
N:   common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary like
N:   a spelling checker does.
N:
N:   If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the help of
N:   gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the translations as
N:   well as the English text to avoid making the translations fuzzy. With
N:   gettext, for example, this means you should also fix the spelling mistake
N:   in the corresponding msgids in the *.po files.
N:
N:   You can often find the word in the source code by running:
N:
N:    grep -rw <word> <source-tree>
N:
N:   This tag may produce false positives for words that contain non-ASCII
N:   characters due to limitations in strings.
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N:   Visibility: info
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: binaries/spelling
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I: netatalk: spelling-error-in-binary tyring trying [usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/netatalk/uams_gss.so]

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