W description-synopsis-starts-with-article
All reports of description-synopsis-starts-with-article for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:
The first line of the "Description:" should omit any initial indefinite or definite article: "a", "an", or "the". A good heuristic is that it should be possible to substitute the package name and synopsis into this formula:
The package name provides {a,an,the,some} synopsis.
Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.2.2 (The package synopsis, or short description) for details.
Severity: minor, Certainty: certain
Check: description, Type: binary, udeb
Evolution of the description-synopsis-starts-with-article Lintian tag over the past 366 days:
Emitted (non-overridden): 526, overridden: 23, total: 549
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