Bug#897080: Please detect long descriptions starting with lowercase to catch short descriptions continuing into long
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> > Ah, I see; lintian doesn't display "minor/possible" by default, so when
> > I tested it on this description it didn't say anything:
> >
> > ~$ apt show postgresql-10-wal2json
>
> […]
>
> Indeed, you need to pass -i/--info to display "I:" tags.
[...]
> Closing bug accordingly. Thank you for the report! :-)
Given that these kinds of issues crop up regularly in new packages, I
can't help but wonder if we could somehow make it easier for people to
notice this class of issues. People often know to run lintian on their
packages before uploading, or use tools that do so for them, but not
nearly as many use --info.
With some heuristics to reduce false positives, could we promote this to
a visible-by-default level? Or alternatively, should we adjust some of
our tooling to help expose lintian --info warnings by default? (Perhaps,
for instance, lintian could suppress them but include a single note
saying "additional warnings available via --info" if any exist?)
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