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

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> writes:

> 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").

If lintian would also print the word in question, that would help the
maintainer to determine if the message is relevant.

Please add.

> 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."!

A very good check to add also. Just print the last word for maintainer
to review the relevance.

> 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".

Excellent idea,
Jari