Re: Bug#288568: lintian: exceptions for description starting with capital letter
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:51:27PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:
> >> 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?
>
> Well, i'm not sure. Perhaps this sould be changed to
> /^[:upper:](?![:upper:])/, which wouldn't match things like "KDE" and
> "GNOME", but the check itself is right, IMO.
And, just discovered in cdebconf:
Description: Debian Configuration Management System (C-implementation)
Please let's just kill this silly warning. Proper nouns are not a
mistake.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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