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Re: Lintian reported a error by mistake



On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:07, Michelle Ribeiro wrote:
> Hi, guys,
>
> The lintian report tell:
>
> E: snare: description-starts-with-package-name
> N:
> N:   The first line of the "Description:" should not start with the package
> N:   name. For example, the package foo should not have a description like
> N:   this: `foo is a program that...'.
>

<snip out his control file>

> I guess this a mistake.
>

The offending code is this (from /usr/share/lintian/checks/description):
if ($synopsis =~ m/^\s*$ppkg\b/i) {
        print "E: $pkg $type: description-starts-with-package-name\n";
    }

Is my perl really getting that bad or does this code look perfectly fine?



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