Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
First off, I feel bad filing this bug, since I do appreciate the work you
put into Lintian and into writing new checks and don't like quibbling over
commas and words, but a couple of the new tag phrasings confused me a bit.
The tag description of debian-rules-uses-deprecated-makefile says "...
appears to include a Makefile, which has been deprecated", implying that
_including_ a Makefile (any Makefile at all) has been deprecated. While I
know CDBS isn't in favor, I didn't realize it had fallen so far... until I
realized the check really means "appears to include a Makefile which has
been deprecated", i.e., the Makefile is the one that's deprecated. (Or
better yet, "a Makefile that has been deprecated".)
See e.g.,
http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/which_that_who_comma_or_not.htm
The tag description for package-has-long-file-name starts with "The
package has a very long package name..."; presumably that should be "file
name". (The rest of the tag seems a little confused, e.g., "the filename
length on of the package", but the meaning is clear enough.)
Thanks again for providing these new checks... I will now go figure out
how source format 3.0 works.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geo...@mit.edu
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