Re: Position of the generic description
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:
> Wasn't at some point proposed to include the generic part of the description
> _at the end_?
> I'm now used to finding the different part of the description at the end,
> but I remember at the beginning it was annoying having to skip a bunch of
> text.
I've looked at doing that for my packages, but in a lot of cases the
specific part doesn't make a whole lot of sense without the context of the
generic part. One tends to use a bunch of terms that are then defined in
the generic part. So it reads better as English prose the other way
around.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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