Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org): > > DevRef 6.2.2 > > > The point is avoiding to have a huge list at "A(n)" and "The" when > > sorting packages by their short description in a list > > Yes, but it's ingrammaticalous. Why would you ever sort packages by their > short description, anyway? Please note that the "the point is" above is my interpretation of the rationale. I actually didn't write that part of the devref anyway..:-)..I happen to just find it makes sense to not have a huge pile of descriptions that all start the same way. DevRef suggest that synopsis should be read mentally by prepending them with "The package <foo> is..." of "The package <foo> provides...". Omitting articles is also a way to (slightly) shorten down these descriptions. --
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