El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:37 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:01:57 +0200 > Pacho Ramos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > > warning? > > In my opinion, descriptions should not be sentences. Sentences > in English not only need to end with a dot but also require a subject > and a predicate. That makes them unnecessarily long, filled with > useless information like repeated package name and obvious 'is', > at least. > > So, rephrasing the example Alexandre pasted, consider: > > x11-libs/qt-core - The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application > development framework. > > vs. > > x11-libs/qt-core - A comprehensive C++ application development framework > > Which one is better, in your opinion? >
Well, I my case I would prefer second sentence... but it would still end with a dot. But if it sounds rare for you, no problem.
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