On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:10:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > 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> I second this. We should also discourage capitalization of the first letter in a package description. (I.e., don't make it a capital letter if it wouldn't be one in the middle of a sentence.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained branden@debian.org | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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