Hi Sam, On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:27:58AM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote: > merge 400964 400970 > thanks
sorry for sending this twice. Don't know what happened. > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Jens Seidel wrote: > > > the package description reads: > > "display large colourful characters in text mode" > > > > It should be > > "displays large colourful characters in text mode" I noticed this during translating of the current Debian Weekly News and try to report all issues I found this way ... > I beg to differ; imho the short description is what the package is > or what it does, and what the program does is display large colourful > characters. See for instance the output of: Indeed, this is why I think you are wrong (but I'm no native speaker). "toilet displays large colourful characters in text mode" Otherwise I assume you talk to the user. (Please display large colourful characters in text mode to ...) http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-desc-basics mentions: <quote> It might help to imagine that the synopsis is combined with the package name in the following way: package-name is a synopsis. Alternatively, it might make sense to think of it as package-name is synopsis. or, if the package name itself is a plural (such as "developers-tools") package-name are synopsis. </quote> This is what I did (except that I omitted the verb). > apt-cache search create | grep ' - create' > > the majority of short descriptions follows what I have been using. Oops, you're right. OK feel free to close this bug report. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
