Bug#898721: lintian -- maybe false positive on description-starts-with-package-name

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 898721 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Thorsten,

> I am not sure whether this is a good english expression, but if so, this 
> is a false positive:
> 
> Description: base58 encode/decode: command-line interface

It's "valid" but very clunky. Could you suggest they use, for example:

  command-line interface to encode and decode base58 integers

?

Moreover, I'm not sure what pattern would deterministically detect
this as a false-positive...


Best wishes,

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