* Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[email protected]> [2009-04-27 12:46:13 CEST]: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Gerfried Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be nice if the long description of your package could consist > > of full sentences[1], preferably more than just one - currently it looks > > a bit poor and pretty short. > > The description used to be longer, but it has been cut due to my sponsor's > comment regarding how the description reflects the target readers. > > For packages that are normally automatically installed like the run-time > libraries, the description is not supposed to be read, and thus its > shortness for users' hint to skip. I saw many examples of this practice > in Debian and I agreed. Therefore, only the *-dev, *-doc, *-bin packages > were described long.
Where I may in parts agree (though a package description always should be able to stand for itself and shouldn't require additional knowhow or references to other packages) it still doesn't contain a complete sentence in its first part, so it would be at least kind to fix that short blurb. :) Thanks for your fast response and not letting the issue bitrot, Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
