Bug#514951: [checks/binaries] check the output of strings for typos and mistakes

2009-02-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> You have to run strings -a if you're going to implement that, at which >>> point I think chances are pretty high that you're going to get false >>> positives from the spell checking part. > >> Not true; I've already trie

Bug#514951: [checks/binaries] check the output of strings for typos and mistakes

2009-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> You have to run strings -a if you're going to implement that, at which >> point I think chances are pretty high that you're going to get false >> positives from the spell checking part. > Not true; I've already tried without -a and successfully m

Bug#514951: [checks/binaries] check the output of strings for typos and mistakes

2009-02-13 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert writes: > >> Attached mbox contains patches adding a collection script to gather the >> output of the 'strings' command on the ELF binaries of a package, and >> spell checks its output. The collection script is also needed to >> implement the check for stati

Bug#514951: [checks/binaries] check the output of strings for typos and mistakes

2009-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: > Attached mbox contains patches adding a collection script to gather the > output of the 'strings' command on the ELF binaries of a package, and > spell checks its output. The collection script is also needed to > implement the check for statically linking to zlib, withi

Bug#514951: [checks/binaries] check the output of strings for typos and mistakes

2009-02-11 Thread Raphael Geissert
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Blocks: 318104 Hi, Attached mbox contains patches adding a collection script to gather the output of the 'strings' command on the ELF binaries of a package, and spell checks its output. The collection script is also needed to implem