Bug#774942: texlive-latex-extra: package description has too many blank lines and is too long

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Vincent,

what is "too long"? For what?

> The texlive-latex-extra package description has too many blank lines,
> making it too long:

That is on purpose to help the translators.
Translation units are paragraphs, thus to make work for translators
easy we followed the suggestion of the translators in this way.

> It may also be better to just give the CTAN package names, without
> their description, and even that may be too much: using the Debian
> package description may not be the best way to search for a CTAN
> package anyway.

Why, what is the problem you are having with the long descriptions?

I *myself* use apt-cache search quite often to find a CTAN package
or a feature in this way.

So I am quite sure that this is a wontfix. If you want, you can
take up the discussion with the translator team.

All the best

Norbert

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