Re: length of a package extended description
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended
> description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra!
>
> Shouldn't the length be limited by the Debian policy?
Some data: count of packages with descs of a given length:
1- 4 13772
5- 9 21324
10- 14 6531
15- 19 2433
20- 24 872
25- 29 288
30- 39 175
40- 49 42
50- 59 19
60- 69 13
70- 79 5
80- 89 7
90- 89 3
100 1
110-119 7
120-150 3
151-199 4
203 1
257 1
277 1
325 1
350 1
437 1
1935 1
Top perpetrators:
107 texlive-latex-recommended
110 collectd-core
111 texlive-math-extra
112 dtv-scan-tables
114 tcllib
118 texlive-lang-english
119 texlive-extra-utils
119 texlive-lang-european
125 devscripts
137 texlive-science
152 fastaq
161 gimp-plugin-registry
187 nagios-plugins-contrib
193 texlive-pstricks
203 texlive-bibtex-extra
257 texlive-pictures
277 texlive-publishers
325 ttf-aenigma
350 irssi-scripts
437 texlive-fonts-extra
1935 texlive-latex-extra
All of the above counts are for unstable/main. Contrib has nothing above
100 lines, non-free has:
207 w3-recs
251 firmware-linux-nonfree
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