Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com> writes: > The binary /usr/bin/mtn (provided by the "monotone" package) contains > a bunch of instances of the string "res.size", e.g. > > res.size() == static_cast<size_type>(w) > database.cc:2122: I(res.size() <= 1) > database.cc:3789: I(res.size() == 1) > > (These are debugging messages which appear in a logfile when assertions > fail.) The spelling check appears to strip punctuation, so "res.size" > becomes "ressize" and spelling-error-in-binary fires.
It should only be stripping periods and similar characters from the end of words. This will be fixed in the next release. > May I suggest that this check might be more reliable if applied to > message catalogs instead of (or in addition to) binaries? 'msgunfmt' > will convert a .mo file back to the textual .po format; unfortunately > there is no way to tell it to print only the (assumed English) msgids > and not the translations. I think that with the bug fixed, applying it to binaries will still be simpler. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
