Bug#1128948: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary override ignored unless line number specified

[Jesse Rhodes]

Hi Nilesh,

Thanks for looking at this!





sney

On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 09:23:34 +0530 Nilesh Patra <nil...@debian.org> wrote:

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> (and not the pointed hints in the tag)
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> So if I do
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> # intentional typo as example for autoreplace function
> -zoitechat binary: spelling-error-in-binary teh the [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
> +spelling-error-in-binary teh the [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
> # another typo example

> +spelling-error-in-binary mispelled misspelled [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
> # upstream will not correct misspelled variable names

> +spelling-error-in-binary Hilight Highlight [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
> # fixing this spelling error would break scripting/theming

> +spelling-error-in-binary Conection Connection [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]
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> The overrides seem to work.

I can see what you mean about that part of the manual. I'd be glad to take a look at rewriting it, probably closer to the end of the month. But also, doesn't it seem odd that lintian needs a line number specified for binary file contents? > I think by "bracket" the documentation actually means the brackets specified > on the line above "[[<package>][ <archlist>][ <type>]: ]<lintian-tag>[ [*]<context>[*]]" > -zoitechat binary: spelling-error-in-binary mispelled misspelled [usr/bin/zoitechat:1] > -zoitechat binary: spelling-error-in-binary Hilight Highlight [usr/bin/zoitechat:1] > -zoitechat binary: spelling-error-in-binary Conection Connection [usr/bin/zoitechat:1]

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