Not sure - OED says writeable is an alternate form of writable [ see
http://yfrog.com/oct3hdfj ], which sort of suggests writable is the
primary/preferred version, but writeable isn't wrong (in the UK). I
suspect if you had raised this 20 years ago the version with the e would
have been the UK spelling, but language is a mutable thing, and the
brits are outnumbered by the rest of the english speaking world.
With heartfelt apologies to those having to work in english as a
second/third/whatever language who suffer from our sheer bloodymindedness!
Nigel.
Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> lintian warned me about
> I: exim4-base: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man8/exim.8.gz writeable writable
>
> Assuming this really is an error (and not british vs american
> english) find attached a trivial patch to change all occurences of
> writeable to writable.
>
> cu andreas
>
>
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