dynamic Text in package descriptions
Hello
If you look a the control file from java-common-0.40, you found
something like this:
! Package: default-jre
! Architecture: any
! Depends: default-jre-headless (= ${binary:Version}), ${jre}${jre:version},
! ${misc:Depends}
! Provides: ${jre:provides}
! Description: Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime
! This package points to the Java runtime, or Java compatible
! runtime recommended for the ${jre:arch} architecture,
! which is ${jre} for ${jre:arch}.
I my optinion the variables in the description are a problem:
- the 'arch' is in the control file of the package, this information
don't need in the description.
- One package with the same version should be have the same description.
(Go to http://packages.debian.org/sid/default-jre:
'Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime
This package points to the Java runtime, or Java compatible runtime
recommended for the alpha architecture, which is openjdk-6-jre for
alpha.'
- This make extra load for the translation of this description.
I don't find something about this in the debian policy?!
Comments?
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