From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Some cleanup based on lint checkers.
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:06:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx2rreha.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141024160537.GA11876@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:05:37 +0200")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> 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.
I would keep the “official name” as is, even if it’s lower-case.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-25 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 5:19 [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Some cleanup based on lint checkers Eric Bavier
2014-10-24 16:05 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-25 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-10-24 18:32 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-25 22:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-26 15:03 ` Eric Bavier
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