[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.5-57-g6bf7673

["Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit f31eff4b9115bd75828518c38be973ed4d002199
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 21 20:09:41 2009 -0800

    Suppress short description warnings for transitional packages
    
    * checks/description:
      + [RA] Don't warn about too-short long descriptions for transitional
        or dummy packages.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.  (Closes: #515538)

diff --git a/checks/description b/checks/description
index fc06e03..c390251 100644
--- a/checks/description
+++ b/checks/description
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ if ($synopsis =~ m/^\s*$/) {
 }
 
 my $flagged_homepage;
+my $is_dummy;
 foreach (split /\n/, $description) {
     next if m/^\s*$/o;
     next if m/^\.\s*$/o;
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ foreach (split /\n/, $description) {
 if ($type ne 'udeb') {
     if ($lines == 0) {
 	tag "extended-description-is-empty";
-    } elsif ($lines <= 2) {
+    } elsif ($lines <= 2 and not $synopsis =~ /(dummy|transition)/i) {
 	tag "extended-description-is-probably-too-short";
     }
 }
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6e0fb12..436e040 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ lintian (2.2.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       syntax "Homepage: <http://example.com>" using the warning level
       tag description-contains-homepage rather than the info level tag
       description-possibly-contains-homepage.  (Closes: #515998)
+    + [RA] Don't warn about too-short long descriptions for transitional
+      or dummy packages.  Thanks, Andreas Beckmann.  (Closes: #515538)
   * checks/fields{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Load virtual packages from data/fields/virtual-packages.
     + [RA] Warn of unsupported source package versions.

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