Chris Lamb wrote:
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly.html
The following commit should make this easier:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/7a2338a808c2dfd6da4d0fbebd0c5b8b0c34afc2
Best wishes,
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Hi Josh,
> With some heuristics to reduce false positives, could we promote this to
> a visible-by-default level?
The first step here would be to ensure that we don't have (too
many!) false-positives:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly.html
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 09:09:45AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> > Ah, I see; lintian doesn't display "minor/possible" by default, so when
> > I tested it on this description it didn't say anything:
> >
> > ~$ apt show postgresql-10-wal2json
>
> […]
>
> Indeed, you need to pass
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 08:33:55AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> tags 897080 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> > Description: words words words. Words words
> > words words words. Words words words.
>
> But would this not already be caught by:
>
> Tag:
tags 897080 + moreinfo
thanks
Hi Josh,
> Description: words words words. Words words
> words words words. Words words words.
But would this not already be caught by:
Tag: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
Severity: minor
Certainty: possible
Info: The package synopsis (also
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.84
Severity: wishlist
I don't know how well this will work or if it will produce false
positives, but inspired by having just reported yet another bug about a
package whose short description contained the start of a sentence that
continued into the long description,
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