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

[Neil Spring <nspring@cs.washington.edu>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:25:23PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> Use ${description}, and debian/substvars.  This is already supported.
> RTFM.

is there FM in the form of an example package? or can you
think of a method of finding packages that use this
technique?

dpkg-souce(1) implies that substitution variables are
limited to a single line (which seems poorly suited to long
descriptions).  An example would likely clear this up
easily.

thanks,
-neil