Justin B Rye <[email protected]> writes: > Jari Aalto wrote: > >> Description: Simple and easy to use addressbook >> ... >> >> SUGGESTION >> >> Add a --pedantic check for capitalized first word in Description field. > > Pedantic and very uncertain, since it's only sentential punctuation > that's deprecated, not lexically capitalised or all-uppercase words > (as in "Debian addressbook" or "GNOME addressbook").
If lintian would also print the word in question, that would help the maintainer to determine if the message is relevant. Please add. > Spotting a final period (full stop) would be easier, though you'd > have to filter the cases that end with "etc." or "T.L.A."! A very good check to add also. Just print the last word for maintainer to review the relevance. > Equally deprecated in DevRef6.2.2, and much easier to check: > anything beginning with an article (a/an/the). The only false > positive I can see for that one is abcde, "A Better CD Encoder". Excellent idea, Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
