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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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