Hello. About 8.3% of DESCRIPTION fields in ebuilds begin with a lowercase letter: $ eix --format="<description>\n" --not --overlay | wc -l 18872 $ eix --format="<description>\n" --not --overlay | grep "^[a-z]" | wc -l 1568 It would be nice if repoman would be able to warn about new ebuilds that have a lowercase character in the beginning of their DESCRIPTION. Exceptions to this rule could for example be "vim plugin: ...". This might be handled by adding a command-line option to permit lowercase in the beginning of descriptions. Existence of this command-line option should be mentioned to the user if repoman prints the warning.
This seems a bit silly in my opinion. Is there a policy that would warrant adding a QA check for this?
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1) > This seems a bit silly in my opinion. Is there a policy that would warrant > adding a QA check for this? If main Gentoo developers agree that it is meaningless to enforce this kind of regularity in ebuild descriptions then I agree that this bug should be closed.
perhaps also consider for such policy whether description should end with a . (if it starts with a capital)
(In reply to Fabian Groffen from comment #3) > perhaps also consider for such policy whether description should end with a > . (if it starts with a capital) 183 package descriptions end with one dot, 3 end with two dots and 6 with three dots. The rule can be to accept descriptions without a trailing dot and descriptions ending with 3 dots.
As I recall, the description was already deemed to NOT end in a period several years ago. And there was a mass of ebuilds fixed for that. And if repoman is to be changed to check for Capitalization, then it is just as easy to have repoman capitalize it unconditionally, save checking it. "Just DO IT"
For fun, a random sampling of errors obtained by partial examinination of the output of passing ebuild descriptions to aspell: $ eix --format="<description>\n" --not --overlay | aspell -a | less accesible complient configurationfiles generalised intance libary librares maintainance managme persitance synchronise sytems linux (should be Linux) amiga debian sudoku
(In reply to Brian Dolbec from comment #5) > And if repoman is to be changed to check for Capitalization, then it is just as easy to have repoman capitalize it unconditionally, save checking it. The official name of ncurses is literally "ncurses": $ eix --format="<description>\n" --not --overlay | grep ^ncurses ncurses-based program to monitor CPU, disk, network and memory usage ncurses based password database client compatible with KeePass 1.x databases ncurses-based hex-editor with diff mode ncurses based hex editor ncurses interface for QEMU ncurses based analog clock ncurses-based visual comparison of binary files ncurses based sudoku game ncurses bandwidth monitor ncurses directconnect client ---- $ eix --format="<description>\n" --not --overlay | grep ^os os-traits is a library containing standardized trait strings. Should be either ^OS-traits or ^os-traits (the latter is the official name of the library), not ^Os-traits.
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013. Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
