Re: identical extended descriptions
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Arguably, the description of these packages should *not* be
>> different, seeing how close they are in packaging.
Joey> Right, I don't have a problem with that. People tend to know
Joey> what kernel versions mean. (Though it would be easy enough to
Joey> stick the kernel version number into the descriptions too.)
Yes, it is a 5 word change in the Control file. Do you feel it
is worth it? I don't thik it makes a meaningful distinction (It'll
fool the md5sum check, though ;-).
Joey> Maybe we don't need an amendment at all, since many of these
Joey> packages could be said to be volating policy by not having a
Joey> description that "tells the user what they need to know to
Joey> decide whether to install the package".
Sounds a fair statement to me.
manoj
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