Bug#778427: lintian: Possible improvement to description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Novice maintainer here: lintian failed to detect that I had started a second
sentence on the first line of the Description: field in debian/control. If as
well as checking for a period at the end of the first line lintian checked for
a period+space anywhere on the first line, this kind of error would be flagged
before submission.
Not a top priority of course, but perhaps helpful.
Kind regards,
Chris
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.90.20141023-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b2
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.20-2
ii gettext 0.19.3-2
ii hardening-includes 2.6
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.22
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-4
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.1-4
ii t1utils 1.38-3+b1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.20.1-4
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.1-4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.22
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
pn libyaml-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
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