Bug#848645: ITP: node-gulp -- The streaming build system

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org> writes:

>   Description     : The streaming build system

Package descriptions should not be automatically from upstream. Instead,
please follow the guidance in Developer's Reference §6.2.2:

    The synopsis functions as a phrase describing the package, not a
    complete sentence, so sentential punctuation is inappropriate: it
    does not need extra capital letters or a final period (full
    stop). It should also omit any initial indefinite or definite
    article — "a", "an", or "the". […]

    Technically this is a noun phrase minus articles, as opposed to a
    verb phrase. A good heuristic is that it should be possible to
    substitute the package name and synopsis into this formula:

        The package name provides {a,an,the,some} synopsis.

So for example, a better synopsis for this package is:

    streaming build system for JavaScript

Many of the recently-filed ITPs for Node libraries should be improved in
this way.

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Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>