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Bug#659108: marked as done (lintian: suggestion: warn when short description starts with article)

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regarding lintian: suggestion: warn when short description starts with article
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Source: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

just saw it again, so here I suggest a lintian warning when
a package’s short description starts with an article or so,
that is, a/an/the and possibly others.

For that matter, I’d like to see short descriptions that
actually explain what packages do… bad example:

 libgnet2.0-0 - GNet network library

Medium example:

 libgetfem4++ - GETFEM++ generic finite element library

Good example:

 gmusicbrowser - graphic jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files

But that’s not lintian’s task…

bye,
//mirabilos
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--- Begin Message --- 
On 2012-02-08 13:54, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2012-02-08 13:48, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Source: lintian
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just saw it again, so here I suggest a lintian warning when
>> a package’s short description starts with an article or so,
>> that is, a/an/the and possibly others.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> bye,
>> //mirabilos
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To my knowledge, we already have this check[1][2]?
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> [1]
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-synopsis-starts-with-article.html
> 
> [2]
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=blob;f=checks/description;h=657f8024a5e5b19188cae9218f46a448affe852e;hb=dde19e49c5a40dbbe31ad5c166ec147fccd1f4f8#l66
> 
> 
> 

As mentioned, I believe we already have this check, so I am closing this
as fixed.

~Niels



> 
>

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