Bug#914562: lintian: please decide on Debian Enhancement Proposal spelling (harmonise)

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.112
Severity: wishlist

I found this:

/usr/share/lintian/checks/patch-systems.desc:Info: The patch contains a standard DEP-3 template description

vs.

/usr/share/lintian/checks/upstream-metadata.desc:Info: The DEP 12 metadata file in the source is not readable.  This

I also carry the DEPs in my acronyms database, but I would like to
avoid repeating them as “DEP 3”, “DEP-3”, “DEP3” and use only one
spelling of them.

Personally I’d prefer DEP-3, but the http://dep.debian.net/ site
uses “DEP 3” spelling (with ASCII space in between), except in
the URLs which have “dep3”.

Please d̲o̲ contact the and interact with the people behind the DEP
system; I’ve just reported this against lintian because it often
refers people to one or another DEP and therefore is probably the
most visible place for their spelling.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.31.1-7
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-9
ii  diffstat                       1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg                           1.19.2
ii  dpkg-dev                       1.19.2
ii  file                           1:5.34-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.8.1-9
ii  gpg                            2.2.11-1
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.34+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.64-1
ii  libcgi-pm-perl                 4.40-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.41-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.19.2
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.08-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                20180523.0-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.416-1+b4
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-13
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.74-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl             2.25-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl           0.75+repack-1
ii  man-db                         2.8.4-3
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-2
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.28.0-4
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:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.31.1-7
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b3
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>

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