Package: lintian Version: 2.115.3 Severity: normal 'licence' is a valid (mostly british) variant of license https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/licence
Seen here: https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt (and quoted in src:nvidia-cuda-toolkit EULA.txt, i.e. d/license) Perhaps (new) spelling corrections should be automatically checked against an american and a british english dictionary and carefully reconsidered if they are found? Without implying to delete all the matches (I haven't heard most of the matching words and would need to look up their meaning...): $ grep -v ^# /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1 | while read word ; do grep "^$word\$" /usr/share/dict/american-english /usr/share/dict/british-english ; done /usr/share/dict/american-english:arrant /usr/share/dict/british-english:arrant /usr/share/dict/american-english:bellow /usr/share/dict/british-english:bellow /usr/share/dict/american-english:buss /usr/share/dict/british-english:buss /usr/share/dict/american-english:convertor /usr/share/dict/british-english:convertor /usr/share/dict/american-english:dependance /usr/share/dict/american-english:dependant /usr/share/dict/british-english:dependant /usr/share/dict/american-english:extravert /usr/share/dict/british-english:extravert /usr/share/dict/american-english:extraverts /usr/share/dict/british-english:extraverts /usr/share/dict/american-english:fount /usr/share/dict/british-english:fount /usr/share/dict/american-english:futz /usr/share/dict/british-english:futz /usr/share/dict/american-english:licence /usr/share/dict/british-english:licence /usr/share/dict/american-english:miniscule /usr/share/dict/british-english:miniscule /usr/share/dict/american-english:programers /usr/share/dict/american-english:programing /usr/share/dict/american-english:singed /usr/share/dict/british-english:singed /usr/share/dict/american-english:venders /usr/share/dict/american-english:vender /usr/share/dict/american-english:want's /usr/share/dict/british-english:want's /usr/share/dict/american-english:wont /usr/share/dict/british-english:wont Andreas
