Bug#789577: lintian: Clarify description of description-contains-invalid-control-statement

[Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.31
Severity: minor

Hi,

In addition to lines starting with a dot, the tag description-contains-invalid-
control-statement is emitted when a line containing a space, a full stop and
another character is in d/control. (Examples inlcude " . " and " .9")

However, the tag description does not indicate this:

 The description contains a line starting with a dot (.). This
 is not allowed.

 Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.13 (Description) for
 details.

 Severity: serious, Certainty: certain

 Check: description, Type: binary, udeb

The description of this tag should be expanded to include the previously
described situation.

Yours thankfully,

Riley



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.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                       2.25-8
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat                       1.58-1
ii  file                           1:5.22+15-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.4-1
ii  hardening-includes             2.7
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.2
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                  0.38-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.18.1
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.195-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.410-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-4
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.12-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.64-1
ii  man-db                         2.7.0.2-5
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.20.2-6
ii  t1utils                        1.38-4
ii  xz-utils                       5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                            1.18.1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.18-3+b1
ii  perl                            5.20.2-6
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.20.2-6

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.1
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-2
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>
pn  libyaml-perl           <none>

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