Re: "Description improvement" probably not

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

>> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

 > > grep "Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l
 > >  8439
 > 
 > You'll be counting a lot of false positives here, because package
 > descriptions frequently begin with acronyms or proper nouns, both of
 > which are capitalized in standard English.

 JFYI,

 $ grep "Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l
    9536
 $ grep "Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep -v "Description: [A-Z]\{2,\}" | wc -l
    8231

 almost 1000 of those start with 'A ' and another 200 or so with 'An '.
 In fact:

     75 Issue
     86 Library
    107 GNU
    116 Linux
    142 Development
    208 Documentation
    213 An
    224 Perl
    666 The
    952 A

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