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Bug#515538: lintian: skip extended-description-is-probably-too-short for transitional packages



Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.5
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

transitional packages (as deborphan would report them) usually have a short
extended description and there is no need to be very descriptive in this case.
So the extended-description-is-probably-too-short report could be disabled for
transitional packges.

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.46-1               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.25              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.26-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-4               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libdigest-sha-perl  5.47-1               Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libipc-run-perl     0.80-2               Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-4              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch  2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 Binary utilities that support mult
pn  libtext-template-pe <none>               (no description available)
ii  man-db              2.5.2-4              on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information



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