Bug#290505: marked as done (lintian: gives warning if package synopsis starts with an article)
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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
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Subject: lintian: gives warning if package synopsis starts with an article
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.7
Severity: important
In response to bug #258824, version 1.23.6 of lintian started reporting a
warning if the short description of a package begins with an article (a, an,
the).
By that bug reporter's own admission,
"About 50% of all packages do not stick to this recommendation"
, which is a rather solid condemnation that this particular recommendation
found at
<http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices=
=2Een.html#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis>
does not represent a best-practices consensus.
It is not lintian's place to attempt to create and artificial consensus in
this manner. (Nor is it the place of the developer's reference to do so,
IMHO, but I'll deal with that later and at leisure.)
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From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
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Subject: Bug#290505: fixed in lintian 1.23.8
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.23.8
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_1.23.8.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.8.dsc
lintian_1.23.8.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.8.tar.gz
lintian_1.23.8_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.8_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 290505@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:14:01 +0100
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.23.8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 288287 288568 288634 289773 290505
Changes:
lintian (1.23.8) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "Hm, this is the team's one year anniversery of maintaining lintian"
release[1], and still using the "temporary" subversion repository...
.
Featuring Steve "R." Langasek in a guest appearance.
.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2004/01/msg00014.html
.
* checks/*.desc,doc/lintian.sgml:
+ [JvW] Stop bugging us for exceptions, mmkay, just install overrides.
Hints like this should be in the general documentation anyway, not in
per-tag descriptions. The general documentation will now only ask to
contact us if in doubt
* checks/changelog-file{,desc}:
+ [JvW] (new test) Bark on @toplevel email signatures in changelogs
+ [JvW] Display invalid debmake email address upon detection
* checks/common_data.pm:
+ [CW] Add tclx8.4 to %known_tclxs.
* checks/description:
+ [SRL] Do not generate warnings when a short description starts with an
article; this is good grammar and should not be discouraged.
(Closes: #290505)
+ [JvW] Drop description-synopsis-starts-with-a-capital-letter by popular
demand (Closes: #288568)
* checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [JvW] Warn only for hardlinks in /etc or amongst different directories
(Closes: #288634)
+ [JvW] Only check for desktop files in GNOME's and KDE's obsolete places,
not in all the package, as KDE uses .desktop files also for other
purposes (Closes: #289773)
* checks/nmu.desc:
+ [JvW] Be more precise in explaining why lintian thinks this is a NMU,
and copy explanation to changelog-should-mention-nmu
* checks/scripts{,.desc}:
+ [CW] Add checks for tclsh8.4 and wish8.4. (Closes: #288287)
Files:
a16b61fa96d6e81d17fb1d280378ed79 802 devel optional lintian_1.23.8.dsc
c6f290d4a8f2110013c0f7524ab7dd45 255956 devel optional lintian_1.23.8.tar.gz
c13654db6fd477bf680a6cefc27e9361 222002 devel optional lintian_1.23.8_all.deb
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