Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

[Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmx.at>]

Enrico Zini wrote:

> While these blurbs are informative, they provide information not
> strictly related to the package itself.  As a consequence, if you do
> "apt-cache search image" you get all of pike, including irrelevant
> things like "pike7.6-public.network.pcap" or
> "pike7.6-public.protocols.syslog".

ACK.

Another example is

$ apt-cache search perl | grep php

which results in a long list.

The reason is one and the same paragraph in all(?) PHP-packages:

----snip----
PHP4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is 
borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific 
features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers 
to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
----snap----

Helmut Wollmersdorfer