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Re: [mass bug filing?] Short descriptions being used as long descriptions and other policy violations



Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> 
>>>I'd say that writing a meaningful package description is certainly the
>>>duty of the individual package maintainer. A package maintainer should
>>>usually have an idea of what his/her package is good for, while Javier
>>>would probably have to spend a lot more time to figure that out, at
>>>least for lesser known packages.
>>However, not providing a better description will (likely) not get anything
>>done.
> You don't know that. If we agreed to such a sweeping generalization, we
> would not have the vast majority of bug reports in the BTS.
Admittedly, I don't know that. Only one way to find out.

Cheers

T.

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