On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > * lose the article > > Why? * it wastes space that is precious in the short description * it's implicit * see the archives of this list > > * do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper > > noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it > > Why? * the short description is neither a sentence nor a title, and thus requires no initial capitalization * if interfaces to the packaging system want to invoke toupper() on the first character of the short description, they are free to do so * asking interfaces to the packaging system to invoke tolower() on the first character of the short description is stupid, because you'll end up with short descriptions like this: xlibs - x Window System client libraries -- G. Branden Robinson | One doesn't have a sense of humor. Debian GNU/Linux | It has you. branden@debian.org | -- Larry Gelbart http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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