Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

William Hubbs:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:59:30AM +0200, Manuel Rüger wrote:
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>> These links might be helpful:
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>> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=06637c4215d55c57517739214c6e0fd6f8f53914
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438976
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>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80786
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>> What's still missing is a patch for devmanual (if we still really want
>> to enforce this).
> 
> I read the thread, and there was no concensus about making this a
> repoman check. Some people thought it was a good idea, but there was a
> feeling that this sort of thing is trivial and shouldn't be worried
> about.
> 

That thread is pretty odd.

First, a sentence does not need to have a predicate. I know that for 99%
sure in german and the english wikipedia article seems to suggest the
same. Correct me if I am wrong.

Second, there are valid descriptions that are full ordinary sentences
without referencing ${PN}:
"Access a working SSH implementation by means of a library".

In addition, repoman doesn't check for full sentences that reference
${PN}, such as:
"Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo".

So we have another (useless) repoman warning with false positives.