[Mageia-sysadm] Rejecting built packages because of a dot at the end of summary is stupid

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 25 February 2011 05:19, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a waste of time, cpu cycles and HD space. A dot at the end of
> the summary isn't going to kill the package, cause the user's CPU to
> explode or cause an eclipse.
>
> There're much more horrible things in packages, a package doesn't get
> rejected when there's no:
> - defattr macro for a sub-package
> - a typo in the used defattr (e.g. gnome-python-desktop)
> - with unversioned obsoletes or provides
>
> BUT is rejected:
> - when there's a dot at the end of a summary
>
>
> This is not logical, and doesn't make one iota of sense, to me at least.
>
> Another issue, this is a new change, i.e. it doesn't exist in mdv?
> because when I run rpmlint on the src.rpm locally this issue isn't
> detected.

Wrong!
It has already been in place at MDV for _YEARS_.

But I'm OK with adding more checks to rpmling and make more of them
rejecting the upload.