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[lintian] 01/01: Clarify explanation of description-starts-with-leading-spaces tag. Thanks to Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu> for the report and patch. (Closes: #849622)



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commit d947c8318c0e8b0cd08cda1582358558d5befccb
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 1 10:02:38 2017 +0100

    Clarify explanation of description-starts-with-leading-spaces tag. Thanks to Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu> for the report and patch. (Closes: #849622)
---
 checks/description.desc | 7 ++++---
 debian/changelog        | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/checks/description.desc b/checks/description.desc
index b0f638e..db64e64 100644
--- a/checks/description.desc
+++ b/checks/description.desc
@@ -104,9 +104,10 @@ Ref: policy 5.6.13
 Tag: description-starts-with-leading-spaces
 Severity: normal
 Certainty: possible
-Info: The package "Description:" starts with leading spaces. Usually,
- leading spaces are used to switch "verbatim display" on (i.e., lines
- are not wrapped) so this might be a bug in the package.
+Info: The package's extended "Description:" paragraph starts with more than
+ one leading space. Usually, leading spaces are used to switch "verbatim
+ display" on (i.e., lines are not wrapped) so this might be a bug in the
+ package.
 
 Tag: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description
 Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f98269d..7be6e33 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ lintian (2.5.53) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * checks/debian-readme.{pm,desc}:
     + [CL] Ensure readme-debian-contains-debmake-template also checks
       for templates "Automatically generated by debmake".
+  * checks/description.desc::
+    + [CL] Clarify explanation of description-starts-with-leading-spaces
+      tag. Thanks to Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu> for the report
+      and patch.  (Closes: #849622)
   * checks/fields.pm:
     + [CL] Ensure that python3-foo packages have "Section: python", not
       just python2-foo.  (Closes: #870272)

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