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Re: debian/control best practices



Hi Carlos,

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 07:21 -0500, Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto wrote:
> I have a question, I am packaginf sitebar package wichis on
> mentorsdebian.net, and have gotten a suggestion, but it got confused
> me in one way, debian developeres reference talks about debian control
> best practices and I understand that ( and one more person say me the
> same ) that synposys must be on lower cases
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis
> 
> package-name is a synopsis.
> 
> but all the packages that I have seen was on this way
> 
> Package-name is a synopsis.
> 
> The first leeter is on uppercase
> 
> what is the right?

You are only meant to write the 'synopsis' part of the sentence.  So if
the intended synopsis is "Foo is a bar", then the first line of the
description in the control file would simply be "bar".


Hope this helps,

Dan


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