Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> was heard to say:
> > Not all of it, but you can't object to duplicating a single sentence saying
> > what it is.
>
> When the sentence in question is the one that goes in the short
> description, and already fills the available space without prepending
> "runtime files for foo "? Is the concern here with the short descs (I
> don't expect much from short descs of affiliate packages), or with the
> long descs?
Long descriptions. See, eg,
bnlib1-dev (not the problem discussed above, but still has problems
with its description)
imlib1-dev
libast2-dev
libcdaudio0-dev
libcelsius-dev
libchipcard20-dev
Daniel
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