On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:37:37PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > ,---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Package: libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl > | Description: AuthorizeNet backend for Business::OnlinePayment > | For detailed information see Business::OnlinePayment. > | > | Package: libbusiness-onlinepayment-bankofamerica-perl > | Description: Bank of America backend for Business::OnlinePayment > | For detailed information see Business::OnlinePayment. > `---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It is not acceptable that one should be refered to the inlying > documentation. The package description should stand for itself and > describe the package. Gerfried, You're right and Ivan is wrong. This package description sucks and if the maintainer refuses to fix it, you should NMU it. On a related note, as Joey Hess has pointed out, the package name is ludicrously long, and should be abbreviated. If that requires amending the Perl Policy then so be it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god Debian GNU/Linux | that behaves any better than a branden@debian.org | spoiled child. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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