Martin Schulze: > To my knowledge there was consensous to capitalize the first word of > the one-line description as one should do with regular sentences. I linked to the latest thread I know of, which did not show any signs at all of a consensus on this point. > This "best packaging practice" helps recognizing the description fast > for humans and is also documented in the Develpers Reference[1] Stuff seems to get added to the developers reference all the time; there is no process, and the existance of some statement there is not policy and need not reflect any consensus. Bear in mind that the developers reference pushes for example, debhelper. And yet I think if bugs were filed on packages that did not use debhelper, you would see some annoyed responses. The developers reference promotes the use of dbs, and yet some of us with good aestetic judgement find dbs to be <explitives deleted> and avoid it like the plague, and find that it impedes debian QA work. If I got a bug on one of my packages saying that I should use dbs, well.... The developers reference says that you should post to this mailing list before doing mass bug filings; you and others have manifestly ignored that. Martin Wheeler: > It is just too easy for the individual working at the micro-level to lose > sight of the bigger picture at the macro-level. I'd be interested to know how you feel this applies to me, if you went back and read my original post at the head of this thread. Or are you just uselessly pontificating? -- see shy jo
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