Bug#947168: duplicate-short-description doesn't deal well with Haskell packages

[s3v <c0llapsed@yahoo.it>]

Package: lintian
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-haskell-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net


Dear maintainer,

duplicate-short-description tag has been emitted for a lot of Haskell packages
but short descriptions seem to be different.

* haskell-abstract-deque [1]
 $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-deque-dev | grep ^Description-en
 Description-en: abstract, parameterized interface to mutable Deques

 $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-deque-doc | grep ^Description-en
 Description-en: abstract, parameterized interface to mutable Deques; documentation

 $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-deque-prof | grep ^Description-en
 Description-en: abstract, parameterized interface to mutable Deques; profiling
libraries

* haskell-abstract-par [2]
 $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-par-dev | grep ^Description-en
 Description-en: abstract parallelization interface

 $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-par-doc | grep ^Description-en
 Description-en: abstract parallelization interface; documentation

 $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-par-prof | grep ^Description-en
 Description-en: abstract parallelization interface; profiling libraries

and so on...
I admit I've not checked all Haskell packages but all short descriptions in
control file are in the form

 Description: ${haskell:ShortDescription}${haskell:ShortBlurb}

maybe ${haskell:ShortBlurb} is not properly handled?

Thanks for reading and for your work!

Kind regards.


Side note
---------
I don't want to waste a BTS number because maybe this is not a bug, so I'm
asking here.
duplicate-short-description was not emitted for geany-plugins despite there are
two binary packages with the same short description.
(Please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904831 for reference).
I don't see geany-plugins in
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-short-description.html, Could I open
new bug report?

[1]
https://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-haskell-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#haskell-abstract-deque_0.3-9

[2]
https://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-haskell-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#haskell-abstract-par_0.3.3-9