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Re: Bug#550290: libio-capture-perl: improve debian/control::Description to mention 'Perl module'



-=| 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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