On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:02:17PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:50:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I believe package management utilities are allowed to omit the short > > description in favor of the long one for interface considerations. > > Why, though? What good does it do? The long description is already > long (hence the name), so using one more line to add the short > description won't hurt anything. And writing good descriptions > is a lot easier if you can assume the long description will be > read in the context provided by the package name and the short > description. Well, I think we should poll the current package manager maintainers (synaptic, gnome-apt, aptitude, etc.) before we such a decision. Other than that I have no objection. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am only good at complaining. Debian GNU/Linux | You don't want me near your code. branden@debian.org | -- Dan Jacobson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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