On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:36:36 +0200
Thomas Sachau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pacho Ramos schrieb:
> > 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?
DESCRIPTIONs don't and shouldn't contain complete sentences. If they do,
they should be fixed.
Wrong description, and grammatically correct:
foo-1.ebuild: "Foo is a tool that does bar."
Correct description, and grammatically correct:
foo-1.ebuild: "a tool that does bar"
The point is that you're writing a dictionary entry, and not telling a
story.
> I dont know any such requirement from english nor german and neither
> do i see any benefit from adding a dot at the end of the DESCRIPTION
> variable. So if you want to have a unified behaviour all over the
> tree, i would request all descriptions to be without the final dot.
+1
jer
