Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi, this is not a major problem, but I'd like to see a bit more
consistency among the package descriptions.  The attached patch should
be self-explanatory.  A quick analysis of the Packages file suggests
there is already a rough consensus in agreement.

This is obviously a post-woody thing; we should put it off until then.

cd /tmp/
diff -u -L /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.sgml.gz -L /tmp/policy.sgml.new /tmp/jka-com6962AcG /tmp/policy.sgml.new
--- /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.sgml.gz
+++ /tmp/policy.sgml.new
@@ -2397,7 +2397,9 @@
 
 	  <p>
 	    The single line synopsis should be kept brief - certainly
-	    under 80 characters.
+	    under 80 characters.  This should be a sentence fragment
+	    which summarizes the key features provided by the package.
+	    It should not end in a full stop (`.').
 	  </p>
 
 	  <p>

Diff finished at Tue Mar 26 01:07:12