Package: lintian Version: 2.5.0~rc2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.1
The new lintian is scoring about 50% for me at the moment. It is quite correct in asking for 'allows to' to be changed to 'allows one to'. At least I can think of no counter examples. However it goes too far in asking for 'helps to' -> 'helps one to'. In all the examples I have seen or can think of, both are grammatically correct but the one without is more appropriate. Adding 'one' makes it sounds long-winded and pompous. These are the only examples I have seen so I do not know what the larger pattern is. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.1 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii locales-all [locales] 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org