Bug#515998: lintian: description-contains-homepage should catch Homepage: <>

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:07:46PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 19:25 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Lintian includes a test "description-contains-homepage", however this
> > check is not triggered by packages that include in their description:
> >  
> >   Homepage: <http://www.example.org/>
> > instead of
> >   Homepage: http://www.example.org/
> > 
> > Maybe lintian should also catch this alternate syntax.
> 
> We actually do catch the syntax, but via the info-level tag
> description-possibly-contains-homepage (added in Lintian 2.2.3, and
> therefore not currently included in the lintian.d.o output).

I used 2.2.5 and I did not get a warning at all (the package involved
being gap).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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