Policy section 2.3.3 states: The description should be written so that it gives the system administrator enough information to decide whether to install the package. However I've found a number of packages which use a long description which is more or less the _same_ as the short description. Sample: $ apt-cache show kdebase-data (...) Description: KDE Base (shared data) KDE Base (shared data). . This package is part of the official KDE base module. And some (2) others which do not provide an extended description at all or provide an extended description of only one line. I've used an ugly scripts (attached) which produces ugly results (attached too). I was wondering, should I make a mass filing of bugs for those packages who fail to produce a proper description? I would probably first do so for the packages whose short description = long description or who do not have a description at all and would review which of the "one liners" do not provide sufficient information. Regards Javi
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