Hi! To summarize here:
- Good git commit message titles should NOT end with a dot. Titles (and e.g. subject lines in an email) should not end with a dot based on general English grammar rules and also software development / git conventions as long as we have had patches and git commits. - By convention, many people use full sentences in changelogs (as pointed out by e.g. Mattia in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959665). In a changelog it makes sense to have full sentences if the texts are longer. This is also what English grammar rules say: a (bullet point) list with just titles are not sentences and have no trailing dot, but if the list has longer and *some* items that are sentences, then all items in the list should end with a dot. Therefore, can we please make sure that Lintian-brush and things that do git commits do NOT add trailing space, and that tools that write changelogs add trailing dots when needed? I think Lintian Janitor is great and I love raising the bar on quality, but I am allergic to git commit titles and subject lines that have a trailing dot. Currently I want to support Janitor, but at the same time I don't want it to pollute my git history and suddenly have titles with trailing dot visible in e.g. $ git log --oneline af616d4bb4a Salsa-CI: Extend tests to install and run Cacti as extra validation abcdabcd Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13. a3b6f3d7f4b Increase MTR verbosity and unify skip test lists with how d/rules does it fdcc4c7493f Packages mariadb-plugin-provider-* must depend at least on MariaDB 10.11 44ae54b6dca Salsa-CI: Use pip3 with --break-system-packages for Python 3.11 compatibility 5a2361935e8 Update Brazilian translation of debconf messages (Closes: #1030908) cc86e20577c Update French translation of debconf messages (Closes: #1030581) 8f87f472749 (tag: debian/1%10.11.1-4) Update changelog for 1:10.11.1-4 release 741c3b3cdb5 Refresh patches and include references to Debian bugs they should fix 7ac10dee3b9 Add upstream patch to fix build failure on HPPA (Closes: #1006529) d0aa92192a8 Temporarily disable MTR on s390x as Debian buildd seems unstable dd25c71d47d Update existing patch with latest upstream PR#2448 version 0284207
