2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 910d526..c5c8a7d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ sbolint:
   standard input. This is actually not new, but was undocumented before.
 - If doinst.sh exists, it's checked for correct usage of config(),
   preserve_perms(), and gtk-update-icon-cache.
+- If the slack-desc still has "(short description of app)", that's an error.
 
 New in 0.8.2:
 =============
diff --git a/sbolint b/sbolint
index d95b3bd..26c45c5 100755
--- a/sbolint
+++ b/sbolint
@@ -880,6 +880,8 @@ sub check_slackdesc {
 				log_error("slack-desc:$lineno: trailing whitespace after colon, on otherwise-blank line");
 			} elsif(length($text) && $text !~ /^ /) {
 				log_error("slack-desc:$lineno: missing whitespace after colon, on non-blank line");
+			} elsif(/\(short description of app\)/) {
+				log_error("slack-desc:$lineno: bad description: literally 'short description of app'");
 			} else {
 				# The world is not ready for this:
 				###if($text =~ /\s$/) {