Bug#774942: texlive-latex-extra: package description has too many blank lines and is too long
On 2015-01-09 22:32:10 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > I expect the same thing concerning CTAN packages, unless
> > the list is short.
>
> Expectations are different.
Note that this is not just me, but "dpkg -s" clearly expects
a description that is not too long. So, I've sent a mail to
debian-devel ("length of a package extended description").
> As I said, you are free to take it up with the translators - btw,
> their work is for the users, too! - I don't have the bug report at
> hand, but should be easy to find by looking into the changelog.
This is just because they use a poorly-written tool. The unit
shouldn't be the paragraph, but either a paragraph or a list
item or something like that.
But if it is decided that the description shouldn't be that long,
this would also solve the translation problem.
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