Package: lintian Version: 2.5.73 Severity: minor Hi,
I reviewed a package and got: W: spectrwm source: spelling-error-in-patch-description debian/patches/D01-adapt-libswmhack.diff libswmhack libswmhack (duplicate word) libswmhack The patch description is: """ Description: Adapt libswmhack libswmhack tries to dlopen() libX11.so and libXt.so, but on Debian those are symlinks shipped in the corresponding -dev package. . If dlopen() fails, try with the versioned library names, libX11.so.6 and libXt.so.6. This ensures libswmhack will work with just the runtime packages installed. """ The only possible "duplicate" I can see is "Adapt libswmhack" followed by "libswmhack tries ...". My assumption here is that many patches are written like git patches, where the first line is the "email subject" and the rest is the "body" (or, Debian terms, they have a "Synopsis" and "long description" like the Description field in d/control). Therefore, I think this is a false-positive. I suspect this concrete issue can be solved by spelling checking the first line separately from the rest (reusing the tag name should be fine). Thanks, ~Niels