Package: debhelper Version: 10.7.2 Severity: normal According to the developer's reference (and the vast majority of the archive), short descriptions are not complete sentences and, thus, do not lead with an upper case letter, nor end with punctuation.
--- debhelper-10.7.2/dh_gencontrol 2017-07-29 12:08:49.000000000 -0600 +++ debhelper-10.7.2ubuntu1/dh_gencontrol 2017-08-15 08:54:18.000000000 -0600 @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ ), "-DPackage=${package}-dbgsym", "-DDepends=${package} (= \${binary:Version})", - "-DDescription=Debug symbols for ${package}", + "-DDescription=debug symbols for ${package}", "-DBuild-Ids=${build_ids}", "-DSection=${component}debug", ); The above patch should fix that. ... Adam -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers artful APT policy: (500, 'artful') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-13-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20161112.1 ii binutils 2.29-4ubuntu1 ii dh-autoreconf 14 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.038-1 ii dpkg 1.18.24ubuntu1 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24ubuntu1 ii file 1:5.31-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24ubuntu1 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii perl 5.26.0-5 ii po-debconf 1.0.20 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 2.201608 -- no debconf information