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): 14, overridden: 17, total: 31
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.
2to3 3.7.2-1 (binary) (Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>)
anna 1.69 (udeb) (Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>)
autofdo 0.18-2 (binary) (Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>) overridden
base58 1.0.0-2 (binary) (Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>) overridden
bluetooth 5.50-1 (binary) (Debian Bluetooth Maintainers <team+pkg-bluetooth@tracker.debian.org>) overridden
cernlib 20061220+dfsg3-4.3 (binary) (Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>) overridden
dracut 048+80-1 (binary) (Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>)
gpac 0.5.2-426-gc5ad4e4+dfsg5-4+b1 (binary) (Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org>) overridden
intercal 30:0.30-2 (binary) (Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>)
jaxb 2.3.0.1-7 (binary) (Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>)
nim 0.19.2-2 (binary) (Federico Ceratto <federico@debian.org>) overridden
perl6 6.d-1 (binary) (Debian Rakudo Maintainers <pkg-rakudo-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>)
pipewire 0.2.5-1 (binary) (Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net>)
pulseaudio 12.2-3 (binary) (Pulseaudio maintenance team <pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>) overridden
scala 2.11.12-4 (binary) (Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>) overridden
snmp 5.7.3+dfsg-5 (binary) (Net-SNMP Packaging Team <pkg-net-snmp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>) overridden
spark 2012.0.deb-11+b3 (binary) (Євгеній Мещеряков <eugen@debian.org>) overridden
tint 0.04+nmu1+b3 (binary) (Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>)
umegaya 1.0 (binary) (Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>) overridden
xwayland 2:1.20.3-1 (binary) (Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>)
