Bug#639018: lintian: Grammar nitpicks in new tags

[Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

First off, I feel bad filing this bug, since I do appreciate the work you 
put into Lintian and into writing new checks and don't like quibbling over 
commas and words, but a couple of the new tag phrasings confused me a bit.

The tag description of debian-rules-uses-deprecated-makefile says "... 
appears to include a Makefile, which has been deprecated", implying that 
_including_ a Makefile (any Makefile at all) has been deprecated. While I 
know CDBS isn't in favor, I didn't realize it had fallen so far... until I 
realized the check really means "appears to include a Makefile which has 
been deprecated", i.e., the Makefile is the one that's deprecated. (Or 
better yet, "a Makefile that has been deprecated".)

See e.g.,
http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/which_that_who_comma_or_not.htm

The tag description for package-has-long-file-name starts with "The 
package has a very long package name..."; presumably that should be "file 
name". (The rest of the tag seems a little confused, e.g., "the filename 
length on of the package", but the meaning is clear enough.)

Thanks again for providing these new checks... I will now go figure out 
how source format 3.0 works.

--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu