[pkg-php-pear] Bug#951243: pkg-php-tools: empty initial paragraph in ${phppear:description}

[merkys at debian.org]

Package: pkg-php-tools
Version: 1.38

Hello,

When package description in package.xml does not start on the same line
as <description>, the generated extended description contains an initial
empty paragraph. This results in
extended-description-contains-empty-paragraph lintian warning.

The following description is OK:

<description>My package</description>

The following is not OK:

<description>
My package
</description>

Possible solution would be to remove initial empty line prior to putting
the extracted result as a value for ${phppear:description}.

Observed in building php-text-captcha.

Best,
Andrius