Bug#540156: marked as done (lintian: New feature - Check debian/control::Description for upcase starting word)
Your message dated Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:46:37 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#540156: lintian: New feature - Check debian/control::Description for upcase starting word
has caused the Debian Bug report #540156,
regarding lintian: New feature - Check debian/control::Description for upcase starting word
to be marked as done.
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: wishlist
An example of debian/control:
...
Package: foo
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Simple and easy to use addressbook
...
SUGGESTION
Add a --pedantic check for capitalized first word in Description field.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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tags 540156 wontfix
thanks
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> An example of debian/control:
>
> ...
>
> Package: foo
> Architecture: any
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: Simple and easy to use addressbook
> ...
>
> SUGGESTION
>
> Add a --pedantic check for capitalized first word in Description field.
Sorry, no. Some people in the project feel very strongly about
capitalizing the first word (me, for instance) and others feel very
strongly about not doing so. We used to have this check and it was
massively unpopular. Lintian isn't going to pick a side.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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