Bug#353588: lintian: [add new rule] check debian/control::Description better (lowercase first line)

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

| On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:39:56PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
| > Add WARNING checks for the above case, where description string,
| > something like:
| > 
| > - "W: [control::Description] Starts with a capital letter (make it lowercase)"
| 
| We had that and disabled it again, so that's not going to happen.
| Here the relevant references:

Hm, "By popular demand". Would it be possible to implement the

   --level DEPTH

Or

   --verbose DEPTH

option, where the amount of details could be controlles. Th defaults
could be

    0   Errors
    1   Warnings [the default]
    2   Notes
    3   Pedantic nitpickings

I certainly would like to have that "starts with capital letter" check
in there.

Jari
 
| r409 | jeroen | 2005-01-15 00:48:04 +0100 (Sa, 15 Jan 2005) | 4 lines
| 
| * checks/description:
|   + [JvW] Drop description-synopsis-starts-with-a-capital-letter by
| popular
|     demand (Closes: #288568)
| 
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| r404 | vorlon | 2005-01-14 17:59:39 +0100 (Fr, 14 Jan 2005) | 4 lines
| 
| Do not generate warnings when a short description starts with an
| article;
| this is good grammar and should not be discouraged. (Closes: #290505)
| 
| 
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| r388 | he | 2004-12-23 23:29:51 +0100 (Do, 23 Dez 2004) | 8 lines
| 
| * checks/description
|   + [HE] Warn if the short description start with an article or a
| capital
|     letter. Patch by Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>, thanks.
| (Closes:
|     #258824)
| 
| > - "W: [control::Description] 1st line contains period at the end line"
| 
| No opintion on that yet. I thought we already checked for that but can
| find no evidence for that.

Good, make it in.

Jari