Bug#353588: marked as done (lintian: [add new rule] check debian/control::Description better (lowercase first line))
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and subject line Bug#353588: lintian: [add new rule] check debian/control::Description better (lowercase first line)
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.15
Severity: wishlist
Example:
Description: Dockapp for showing weather in graphical way.
...
SUGGESTION
Add WARNING checks for the above case, where description string,
something like:
- "W: [control::Description] Starts with a capital letter (make it lowercase)"
- "W: [control::Description] 1st line contains period at the end line"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.15 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:23:57PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:39:56PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > - "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.
I was right but blind: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
checks for that.
Closing the bug.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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