E description-starts-with-package-name
All reports of description-starts-with-package-name for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:
The first line of the "Description:" should not start with the package name. For example, the package foo should not have a description like this: "foo is a program that...".
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.4.1 (The single line synopsis) for details.
Severity: important, Certainty: certain
Check: description, Type: binary, udeb
Evolution of the description-starts-with-package-name Lintian tag over the past 366 days:
Emitted (non-overridden): 12, overridden: 16, total: 28
The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.