Bernd Eckenfels wrote: (Lies, damn lies, and statistics.) > grep "Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l > 8439 joey@dragon:~>grep "^Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep '[.?!]$' |wc -l 2058 joey@dragon:~>grep "^Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep '[^.?!]$' |wc -l 7651 > grep "Description: [a-z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l > 1377 joey@dragon:~>grep "^Description: [a-z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep '[.?!]$' |wc -l 123 Feel free to file bug reports on some of those. Just don't ask for all of them to be promoted to full sentences; eyballing the list I see mostly sentence fragments that should not end in a period. joey@dragon:~>grep "^Description: [a-z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep '[^.?!]$' |wc -l 1377 > grep "Description: [^A-Za-z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l > 102 > > It does not realy look like a consencus here, but it looks to me like a > clear majority. Indeed, a majority do not end with punctuation. joey@dragon:~>grep "^Description: .*[.?!]$" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l 2208 joey@dragon:~>grep "^Description: .*[^.?!]$" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l 9110 So, if he really wants, maybe Martin Schulze can file 9 thousand fresh bug reports? -- see shy jo
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