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, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
