[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.17-32-ga4dfa2c
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit a4dfa2c7d82c4d8f8679ed7333bb78abb3525349
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu Nov 12 15:28:17 2009 -0800
Downgrade description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
This devref recommendation has been very controversial over time.
Downgrade it to minor, since it's really a stylistic debate, and fix
the cross-reference to point to the devref discussion rather than Policy
(which doesn't say anything about using a sentence or not).
diff --git a/checks/description.desc b/checks/description.desc
index 668bfe2..319b684 100644
--- a/checks/description.desc
+++ b/checks/description.desc
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Info: The extended description contains the statement that it was
to signal that you have done so.
Tag: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
-Severity: normal
+Severity: minor
Certainty: possible
Info: The synopsis (first line in the package "Description:" field, the
short description) ends with a full stop "." character. This is not
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Info: The synopsis (first line in the package "Description:" field, the
.
Note also that the synopsis is not part of the rest of the "Description:"
field.
-Ref: policy 3.4.1
+Ref: devref 6.2.2
Tag: description-synopsis-is-duplicated
Severity: important
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 902e5bb..c810a23 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ lintian (2.2.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ [FL] Remove experimental flag from template-uses-unsplit-choices.
This was only done to not disrupt the lenny freeze. Thanks,
Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #553487)
+ * checks/description.desc:
+ + [RA] Downgrade description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly to
+ minor and fix the cross-reference to point to devref, not Policy.
* checks/fields:
+ [RA] Fix lib-recommends-documentation tag to correctly exclude dev
and doc packages. Patch from Stéphane Glondu. (Closes: #548210)
diff --git a/t/tests/description-general/tags b/t/tests/description-general/tags
index bf8131e..ac8f17a 100644
--- a/t/tests/description-general/tags
+++ b/t/tests/description-general/tags
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ E: description-general: description-contains-tabs
E: description-general: description-is-debmake-template
E: description-general: description-starts-with-package-name
I: description-general-3: using-first-person-in-description line 5: I
+I: description-general: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
W: description-general-2: description-starts-with-leading-spaces
W: description-general-2: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description
W: description-general-3: extended-description-line-too-long
@@ -19,4 +20,3 @@ W: description-general: description-contains-duplicated-word The the
W: description-general: description-contains-duplicated-word matched matched matched
W: description-general: description-contains-duplicated-word of of
W: description-general: description-contains-duplicated-word these these
-W: description-general: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
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