Bug#540156: lintian: New feature - Check debian/control::Description for upcase starting word

[Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk>]

Jari Aalto wrote:
>     Description: Simple and easy to use addressbook
>      ...
> 
> SUGGESTION
> 
> Add a --pedantic check for capitalized first word in Description field.

Pedantic and very uncertain, since it's only sentential punctuation
that's deprecated, not lexically capitalised or all-uppercase words
(as in "Debian addressbook" or "GNOME addressbook").

Spotting a final period (full stop) would be easier, though you'd
have to filter the cases that end with "etc." or "T.L.A."!

Equally deprecated in DevRef6.2.2, and much easier to check:
anything beginning with an article (a/an/the).  The only false
positive I can see for that one is abcde, "A Better CD Encoder".
-- 
JBR
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