Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Some cleanup based on lint checkers.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
>> 2. Many descriptions begin with the package name in lowercase form,
>> which triggers a warning about the description beginning with a
>> lowercase letter.  In this patch I capitalised the package name if I
>> could find a reference to the capital form on the package's home-page
>> somewhere.  Many packages are quite insistent that the package always be
>> referenced by the lowercase name, and I'm not sure how the description
>> would be reworded, or whether it really needs to be.  We could add an
>> exception to the description-starts-with-a-capital-letter rule for when
>> the package name is the first word.
>
> Personally I would capitalise; we are not bound by upstream wishes to use
> incorrect language.

I would keep the “official name” as is, even if it’s lower-case.

Ludo’.