Hello Sean, thanks for your reply. On 21/10/16 02:43, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:36:41AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> For the curious. In the source, there is the sentence: >> >> :param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow to be stuck >> >> >> and lintian complains as follows: >> >> allow to allow one to >> >> >> I am not a native English speaker, but I guess that the suggested >> substitution is not valid. >> But on the other hand, I have no idea on how to reshape the sentence. > > I'm a native English speaker, but I can't answer without more > information about what the function does (what is being stuck?).
I am packaging fpylll [1], a Python wrapper for the fpLLL C++ library. The involved function is related to the Block Korkine Zolotarev (BKZ) algorithm. > > Anyway, the proper list for this is debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org Ok. I am not sure that they can help here because of the math context. Anyway, I will ask to the upstream maintainer. Thanks, Jerome > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841005
