Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
The attached patch adds Ref fields to the following tags: package-has-no-description, description-synopsis-is-empty, extended-description-is-empty.
-- Jakub Wilk
diff --git a/checks/description.desc b/checks/description.desc --- a/checks/description.desc +++ b/checks/description.desc @@ -5,33 +5,36 @@ Info: Check if the Description control field of a binary package conforms to the rules in the Policy Manual (section 3.4). Tag: package-has-no-description Severity: serious Certainty: certain Info: The binary package does not have a "Description:" control field. Tested: empty +Ref: policy 3.4 Tag: description-synopsis-is-empty Severity: serious Certainty: certain Info: The first line in the "Description:" is empty. +Ref: policy 3.4 Tag: extended-description-contains-empty-paragraph Severity: normal Certainty: certain Info: The extended description (the lines after the first line of the "Description:" field) contains an empty paragraph. Tag: extended-description-is-empty Severity: serious Certainty: certain Info: The extended description (the lines after the first line of the "Description:" field) is empty. +Ref: policy 3.4 Tag: extended-description-is-probably-too-short Severity: minor Certainty: possible Ref: devref 6.2.1, devref 6.2.3 Info: The extended description (the lines after the first line of the "Description:" field) is only one or two lines long. The extended description should provide a user with enough information to decide
