Index: trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/data/validation/tests/SimilarNamedWays.java
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--- trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/data/validation/tests/SimilarNamedWays.java	(revision 14371)
+++ trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/data/validation/tests/SimilarNamedWays.java	(revision 14373)
@@ -111,4 +111,17 @@
 
     /**
+     * Compute Levenshtein distance
+     *
+     * @param s First word
+     * @param t Second word
+     * @return The distance between words
+     * @deprecated Use {@link Utils#getLevenshteinDistance} instead
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static int getLevenshteinDistance(String s, String t) {
+        return Utils.getLevenshteinDistance(s, t);
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Add a regular expression rule.
      * @param regExpr the regular expression to search for