Bug#918291: lintian: duplicate word check for patches goes across subjects

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Craig,

> If a patch description ends with a word and the long description starts
> with the same word, lintian incorrectly considers this a duplicate word.
> 
> For example:
>   Subject: Correct snmpwalk args in snmpcheck
> 
>   snmpcheck used the old command line arguments for snmpwalk giving an
> 
> lintian thinks "snmpcheck" is repeated, when they are different fields.

This was addressed previously in:

  https://bugs.debian.org/890100

… so this could be "fixed" by moving the Subject to the first line
from my brief re-reading of the code.

(Parsing the Subject out seems a little bit out-of-scope and error-
prone for Lintian.)


Regards,

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