Bug#108416: Format of short description should be mandated
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:17:46PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:52:55PM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > > I also think that that short description should be as close as possible
> > > to a real sentence.
>
> > Agreed. Thatswhy I prefer the period. :)
>
> I strongly disagree. Most packages have a noun clause as the first
> line of the description, not a sentence, and thus, capitalization and
> a period would be grammatically incorrect. This could, of course, be
> changed by mandating that the first line _be_ a sentence, but it would
> gain us nothing except redundancy and awkwardness in most cases.
>
> Thus:
>
> Package: foo-ed
> Description: editor for foo files
What's wrong with:
Description: Editor for foo files
? I mean, this isn't about grammer, this is about consistency.
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