Bug#220838: ITP: verbiste -- a french conjugation system
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 18:35, Raphael Goulais wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2003 00:25, Joe Drew wrote:
> > > Following this citation, the short sentence could be :
> > >
> > > verbiste -- is a french conjugation system
> >
> > How do you figure that?
>
> Extract from the citation :
>
> [ ... ]
> A package's short description should:
> * fit on an 80-character line within the control file (so that the
> package name and description together take up less than 80
> characters)
> * typically be written in a form that completes the following sentence:
> "<foo> is a package which provides (a/an)..."
> [ ... ]
>
> This is quite explicit.
You're misunderstanding. The short description must _complete_ the given
sentence. It should not _contain_ that sentence.
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