Bug#897080: Please detect long descriptions starting with lowercase to catch short descriptions continuing into long
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.84
Severity: wishlist
I don't know how well this will work or if it will produce false
positives, but inspired by having just reported yet another bug about a
package whose short description contained the start of a sentence that
continued into the long description, I wonder if Lintian could try to
detect that somehow.
One possibility would be to check for a long description that starts
with a lowercase letter, other than the case where the long description
starts with the package name or a word from the package name. That
*might* still produce some false positives, though.
If that still produces too many false positives, perhaps it would work
to check for a short description that looks like a sentence followed by
more words, and *then* a lowercase word starting the description. For
instance:
Description: words words words. Words words
words words words. Words words words.
Does that seem plausible?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.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 2.30-16
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5
ii file 1:5.33-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.99-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-2
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.73-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.3-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.2-2
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.52-1
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