-=| Jari Aalto, Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:13:43AM +0300 |=- > Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> writes: > > The fact that the package contains a perl module is already > > present elsewhere: in the Section: field ('perl') and in the > > package name (lib*-perl). Repeating it in the short description, > > especially if the space is tight seems useless to me. > > It would help to be able to grep just 'perl module', because that seems > to be quite uniform: > > apt-cache search perl | grep -i 'perl module' | wc -l > 533 Not very representative: aptitude search "?name(lib.*-perl)" | wc -l 2121 If you want to push a policy on the short descriptions, you shall contact debian-perl@lists.debian.org (CC-ed). Also, please read about mass bug filing in Debian Developer's Reference, §7.1.1 -- dam
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