Wow, looks like I'm the number-one offender. ;)
Harold
Brian Dessent wrote:
This is a request to all package maintainers to please check your setup.hints for bogus 'sdesc' lines. As you know, this is the text that is displayed to the user when using setup. It should not begin with the name of the package, since setup displays it as "$package: $sdesc". It should also be more descriptive than just the name of the package, because "foo: Foo" is almost useless to the user. Surely you can describe your package with a short phrase or sentence.
I wrote a small script that tests for these things as well as packages that reference anything in ZZZRemovedPackages in their Requires. The output is below:
GraphicsMagick: sdesc contains only name of package ImageMagick: sdesc contains only name of package WindowMaker: sdesc contains only name of package XmHTML: sdesc begins with name of package ddd: sdesc contains only name of package fvwm: sdesc contains only name of package lesstif: sdesc contains only name of package libsmi: sdesc contains only name of package man: sdesc begins with name of package nedit: sdesc contains only name of package openbox: sdesc contains only name of package opengl: sdesc begins with name of package postgresql: sdesc begins with name of package shutdown: sdesc begins with name of package tetex-x11: references removed package in 'requires' transfig: sdesc contains only name of package x2x: sdesc contains only name of package xfig: sdesc begins with name of package xfig-lib: sdesc begins with name of package xgraph: sdesc contains only name of package xterm: sdesc begins with name of package
Brian
