On 10/02/2017 06:47, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On വെള്ളി 10 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2017 09:51 രാവിലെ, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> writes: >>> On വ്യാഴം 09 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2017 11:48 വൈകു, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> [...] > > Thanks for this description. I will try to write more description, but > its not very easy always especially when you are not allowed to write > sample code. When it is a single function, the user of that library is > usually a programmer that wants to use the function in their code, but > policy forbids writing sample code and some packages were rejected for > including the sample code (we started including sample code after > discussions about lack of good descriptions). When you are not allowed > to write 2 lines of sample code when that is the best possible > description to the target audience, its very irritating. > The users of the library being programmers does not mean the users of the _package_ will be programmers. If I'm installing packages during a site wide upgrade I am going to examine the packages that get pulled in as well as the ones I specifically install. Descriptions help greatly in this regard. The target audience of packages in Debian are Debian users, not necessarily just those who are developers
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