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Bug#754658: please display the package's description



On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> Uhm, interesting, I always thought the heuristic was slightly
> difference.

It was always that way FYI.

> Is there an argument for not replacing point (3) above with:
>
>   (3*) Otherwise, use the description of the first binary in
>   debian/control order
>
> My gut feeling is that (2) is enough to counter most of the misleading
> results that (3*) alone would produce.

Sounds good to me.

Raphael, the PTS also has long descriptions in title attributes of the
abbrev tags that enclose short descriptions, could we add that to the
distro tracker too? The PTS uses this HTML:

<small><abbrev title="{longdesc}">{shortdesc}</abbrev></small>

-- 
bye,
pabs

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