On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:04:43PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:33:17AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I definitely agree that consistency is important, but the fact is that > > we currently do NOT have such consistency in package descriptions > > grep "Description: [A-Z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l > 8439 > grep "Description: [a-z]" /var/lib/dpkg/available | 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. You'll be counting a lot of false positives here, because package descriptions frequently begin with acronyms or proper nouns, both of which are capitalized in standard English. -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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