Avoid full stop and double newline at the end of errors and warnings

Error messages like "couldn't parse control information from foo.deb"
are not full sentences, so don't punctuate them like one. The main
purpose of this patch is stylistic consistency, but perhaps it can
also make copy-and-paste from messages like

	dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/agrep.

a little easier.

Most actual full sentences should remain untouched. A few full sentences
are error messages at heart, so this patch converts those to lower-case
sentence fragment form, too.

[guillem@debian.org:
 - Add missed strings.
 - Minor tweaks to strings. ]

Closes: #624000

Requested-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V3/git.pm b/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V3/git.pm
index de80b4ea1..d4cd53630 100644
--- a/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V3/git.pm
+++ b/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V3/git.pm
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ sub import {
             return 1;
         }
     }
-    error(_g("This source package can only be manipulated using git, " .
-             "which is not in the PATH."));
+    error(_g("cannot unpack git-format source package because " .
+             "git is not in the PATH"));
 }
 
 sub sanity_check {
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ sub sanity_check {
                  "specified"), $srcdir);
     }
     if (-s "$srcdir/.gitmodules") {
-        error(_g("git repository %s uses submodules. This is not yet supported."),
+        error(_g("git repository %s uses submodules; this is not yet supported"),
               $srcdir);
     }