Package: lintian Severity: wishlist We have some packages in the archive that have a Maintainer: field that starts with 'Maintainer: '. I think it would be good if lintian could detect this and similar situations where the field value starts with the field name and a colon. Here are some examples from the Debian archive:
pabs@chianamo ~ $ egrep -h '^([^:]*: )\1' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages | sort -u Description: Description: GObject introspection data for the GStreamer library Description: Description: GObject introspection data for the GStreamer Plugins Base library Maintainer: Maintainer: Debian Java maintainers <pkg-java-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Maintainer: Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> Maintainer: Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Maintainer: Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1370349825.5833.82.camel@chianamo
