Bug#288568: lintian: exceptions for description starting with capital letter
retitle 288568 [checks/description] Description starting with capital letter has too many false positives
# many false positives is a real bug
severity 288568 normal
thanks
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:52:15PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:23:56PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > > W: potracegui: description-synopsis-starts-with-a-capital-letter
> > I think we should seriously consider to drop it, as I don't really think
> > it's a valuable warning.
>
> But when this check has been incorporated? I didn't get any warning few
> days ago, and now I see that most of my packages has this problem.
+ [HE] Warn if the short description start with an article or a capital
letter. Patch by Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>, thanks. (Closes:
#258824)
1.23.6 changelog, in unstable since very shortishly, I uploaded it, and I'm
only a DD since as long as you are :). Looks like it's on the mirrors about 48
hours now.
> I think only checking if description starts with A/An/The is useful.
> Checking for capital letters in general would have include many exceptions.
Agree.
Other lintian maintainers, objections if I back out the capital letter part?
--Jeroen
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