Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:46:19AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > 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,
> > libchipcard20-dev
> So this should read like:
This packages [sic] contains the development files for libchipcard20.
.
> libchipcard20 provides an API for accessing smartcards. Examples are memory
> cards, as well as HBCI (home banking), German GeldKarte (electronic
small change), and KVK (health insurance) cards.
The upstream homepage is <http://www.libchipcard.de/>.
> ?
That looks good with a little editing. (s/packages/package/ is the
main thing I see)
Daniel
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