Package: lintian Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-haskell-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net
Dear maintainer, duplicate-short-description tag has been emitted for a lot of Haskell packages but short descriptions seem to be different. * haskell-abstract-deque [1] $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-deque-dev | grep ^Description-en Description-en: abstract, parameterized interface to mutable Deques $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-deque-doc | grep ^Description-en Description-en: abstract, parameterized interface to mutable Deques; documentation $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-deque-prof | grep ^Description-en Description-en: abstract, parameterized interface to mutable Deques; profiling libraries * haskell-abstract-par [2] $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-par-dev | grep ^Description-en Description-en: abstract parallelization interface $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-par-doc | grep ^Description-en Description-en: abstract parallelization interface; documentation $ apt-cache show libghc-abstract-par-prof | grep ^Description-en Description-en: abstract parallelization interface; profiling libraries and so on... I admit I've not checked all Haskell packages but all short descriptions in control file are in the form Description: ${haskell:ShortDescription}${haskell:ShortBlurb} maybe ${haskell:ShortBlurb} is not properly handled? Thanks for reading and for your work! Kind regards. Side note --------- I don't want to waste a BTS number because maybe this is not a bug, so I'm asking here. duplicate-short-description was not emitted for geany-plugins despite there are two binary packages with the same short description. (Please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=904831 for reference). I don't see geany-plugins in https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-short-description.html, Could I open new bug report? [1] https://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-haskell-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#haskell-abstract-deque_0.3-9 [2] https://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-haskell-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#haskell-abstract-par_0.3.3-9