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Bug#1016364: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary should be more precise

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On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 08:30:13AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> When building dhcpcd5 version 9.4.1-4 against Stable, Lintian 2.104.0 reports the following:
> 
> I: dhcpcd-base: spelling-error-in-binary usr/sbin/dhcpcd addres address
> 
> $ grep -rw addres
> $
> 
> i.e. not found.
> 
> Lintian really needs to quote the whole stanza where typos are spotted, otherwise, it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

Those "spelling error in binary" checks use `strings` on the final
binary, so there isn't really much to see often.

    % strings dhcpcd|grep -E 'addres\b'
    Duplicate addres

In your case at most you could get this much.

Note that strings can also "leak" from statically linked/inlined functions.


I tried a quick codesearch.d.n lookup, but I couldn't spot a string like
that.


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Bug#1016364: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary should be more precise Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> - 2022-07-30 07:40 +0200
  Bug#1016364: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary should be more precise Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2022-07-30 09:40 +0200

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