On 10/15/2015 12:18 AM, Robert Collins wrote: > On 15 October 2015 at 11:11, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> One major pain point is unfortunately something ridiculously easy to >> fix, but which nobody seems to care about: the long & short descriptions >> format. These are usually buried into the setup.py black magic, which by >> the way I feel is very unsafe (does PyPi actually execute "python >> setup.py" to find out about description texts? I hope they are running >> this in a sandbox...). >> >> Since everyone uses the fact that PyPi accepts RST format for the long >> description, there's nothing that can really easily fit the >> debian/control. Probably a rst2txt tool would help, but still, the long >> description would still be polluted with things like changelog, examples >> and such (damned, why people think it's the correct place to put that...). >> >> The only way I'd see to fix this situation, would be a PEP. This will >> probably take a decade to have everyone switching to a new correct way >> to write a long & short description... > > Perhaps Debian (1 thing) should change, rather than trying to change > all the upstreams packaged in it (>20K) :) > > -Rob
Well, having the changlog (and other stuff) of packages merged into the long description is not helpful, not for Debian, nor for upstream Python packages. Thomas __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
