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Bug#288568: lintian: exceptions for description starting with capital letter



On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:52:15PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > 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?

Not in the least; it's way too picky and unimportant. If lintian is
overly pedantic people will just start ignoring it altogether, which I
don't think would be a good thing.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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