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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Chris Lamb wrote:

> > 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...

Gentle ping on this? Just trying to work out what to do next with respect to
Lintian and this bug number.


Regards,

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