Bug#353588: lintian: [add new rule] check debian/control::Description better (lowercase first line)
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:37:11AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> | 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
Pedantic nitpickings is one thing, a test that is way too often actually
*wrong* is another thing. Yes, it'd be a good thing to have a more
fine-grained system of severities, but that's a totally unrelated issue,
as whatever system is adopted, lintian still should never hit *this*
unreliably on packages.
--Jeroen
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