On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote: > 2. Many descriptions begin with the package name in lowercase form, > which triggers a warning about the description beginning with a > lowercase letter. In this patch I capitalised the package name if I > could find a reference to the capital form on the package's home-page > somewhere. Many packages are quite insistent that the package always be > referenced by the lowercase name, and I'm not sure how the description > would be reworded, or whether it really needs to be. We could add an > exception to the description-starts-with-a-capital-letter rule for when > the package name is the first word.
Personally I would capitalise; we are not bound by upstream wishes to use incorrect language. > 5. I didn't really want to begin looking at the synopses and > descriptions in xorg.scm... Actually, I filled most of them with a fixed synopsis and description that is independent of the actual package. So if they do not pass the tests, they should be simple to modify. > Comments welcome. Nitpicks especially, since much of this is already > quite nitpicky. ;) I would rather trust you with these clean-ups than go through all of the changes myself... I think they fall under the "one may push simple changes" provision anyway. Andreas
