Bug#678307: perl: Description does not well reflect what Perl is

2012-06-25 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:52:05PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:42:42PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: The current description of Perl in the Debian perl package doesn't well represent what Perl is about these days. Improved descriptions have been bouncing

Bug#678307: perl: Description does not well reflect what Perl is

2012-06-22 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 21. June 2012 22.52.05 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Thanks for this; it seems like a reasonable change. Can you let me know where canonical location for this text is? Oh, it was discussed on #perlrdf on IRC, and he posted it here: http://paste.scsys.co.uk/201034 The first paragraph is

Bug#678307: perl: Description does not well reflect what Perl is

2012-06-21 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:42:42PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: The current description of Perl in the Debian perl package doesn't well represent what Perl is about these days. Improved descriptions have been bouncing around in the Perl community, may I suggest one written by Chris Nehren?

Bug#678307: perl: Description does not well reflect what Perl is

2012-06-20 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Package: perl Version: 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Severity: minor Tags: patch The current description of Perl in the Debian perl package doesn't well represent what Perl is about these days. Improved descriptions have been bouncing around in the Perl community, may I suggest one written by Chris Nehren?