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Re: Bug#288568: lintian: exceptions for description starting with capital letter



Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:
>> I think only checking if description starts with A/An/The is useful.
>> Checking for capital letters in general would have include many exceptions.
> Agree.
> Other lintian maintainers, objections if I back out the capital letter
> part?

Well, i'm not sure. Perhaps this sould be changed to
/^[:upper:](?![:upper:])/, which wouldn't match things like "KDE" and
"GNOME", but the check itself is right, IMO.

Marc
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