On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
Description field is inappropriate,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:09:24PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
* lose the article
Why?
* do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper
noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it
Why?
ciao,
--
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:20:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
I though the limit was 60 chars, as stated in one of the debian
documents.
Friendly,
Beside the fact that is was to hurry in sending that mail (synopsis was short
enough), as i can read from Policy (I've 3.5.10), it must be less
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
* lose the article
Why?
* do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper
noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:14:05AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:20:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
I though the limit was 60 chars, as stated in one of the debian
documents.
Friendly,
Beside the fact that is was to hurry in sending that mail
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
* lose the article
Why?
Because
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis
states that
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
* lose the article
Why?
Because Branden is agent sent by Russians to demoralize our English
grammarians, and removing article advances his agenda.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
* lose the article
Why?
* it wastes space that is precious in the short description
* it's implicit
* see the archives of this list
* do not
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: pmk
Version : 0.4.5
Upstream Author : Damien Couderc Xavier Santolaria
* URL : http://premk.sf.net/
* License : BSD
Description : The pmk project aims to be an
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to GNU/autoconf
(configure scripts).
Description field is inappropriate, use something like:
Description: A GNU/autoconf alternative.
ciao,
--
Luca - De
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
Description field is
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
Description field is inappropriate,
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf?
I see your point, but your suggestion is still too long: it should be
rephrased to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf?
Sorry for my previous reply to this message, your suggestion is definitely
good.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De
Vitis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:14:56PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
about A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
Try an alternative to GNU autoconf or a substitute for GNU autoconf,
to avoid confusion with Debian's alternatives system.
It's
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:21:18PM -0400, Jim Penny scribbled:
[snip]
Description field is inappropriate, use something like:
Description: A GNU/autoconf alternative.
Try an alternative to GNU autoconf or a substitute for GNU
autoconf, to avoid confusion with Debian's
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