Source: liblognorm
Version: 1.1.2-1.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

The long descriptions for liblognorm{2,-dev} contain a trivial typo:
       
  Description: Log normalizing library
   Liblognorm is a event and log normalization library that is capable of
                  ↑
        s/a event/an event/

While fixing that objective error I've also taken the liberty of
tweaking the synopsis line to match the stylistic recommendations of
the Debian Developer's Reference (6.2.2): the word "Log" shouldn't be
capitalised, and the synopses for the two binary packages should be
different.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-rc4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages liblognorm2 depends on:
ii  libc6       2.21-4
ii  libestr0    0.1.10-1
ii  libjson-c2  0.11-4

liblognorm2 recommends no packages.

liblognorm2 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
JBR     with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
        sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru liblognorm-1.1.2.pristine/debian/control liblognorm-1.1.2/debian/control
--- liblognorm-1.1.2.pristine/debian/control	2015-11-21 17:10:23.000000000 +0000
+++ liblognorm-1.1.2/debian/control	2015-12-20 01:33:42.688018987 +0000
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
     libjson-c-dev,
     libestr-dev
 Multi-Arch: foreign
-Description: Log normalizing library
- Liblognorm is a event and log normalization library that is capable of
+Description: log normalizing library - development files
+ Liblognorm is an event and log normalization library that is capable of
  real-time processing. It provides the capability to normalize events to
  a set of standard formats.
  .
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
 Multi-Arch: same
-Description: Log normalizing library
- Liblognorm is a event and log normalization library that is capable of
+Description: log normalizing library
+ Liblognorm is an event and log normalization library that is capable of
  real-time processing. It provides the capability to normalize events to
  a set of standard formats.
  .

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