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Re: Bug#209693: The package description does not follow Debian policy



On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:35:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> aptitude can be configured to do that. It is a bit of a catch-22, isn't
> it?

I think this is a case of "don't do that, then".  Why should we make it
needlessly difficult to write good descriptions?  The short description
is only one line, so there's no pressing need to suppress it when showing
the long description.

Richard Braakman



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