From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Some cleanup based on lint checkers. Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:06:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87tx2rreha.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tx2uxcxk.fsf@member.fsf.org> <20141024160537.GA11876@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xi9Tk-0008Fm-CG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:06:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xi9Td-0006RG-8v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:06:32 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:40547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xi9Td-0006R9-1Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:06:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20141024160537.GA11876@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:05:37 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge 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 =E2=80=9Cofficial name=E2=80=9D as is, even if it=E2=80=99= s lower-case. Ludo=E2=80=99.