Package: developers-reference Severity: wishlist Hi,
as described in #400970 the formulation of the short description starting with a verb is not clear. Chapter 6.2.2 suggests: "A good heuristic is that it should be possible to substitute the package name and synopsis into this formula: The package <name> provides {a,an,the,some} <synopsis>." Applying this to a package description as "display large colourful characters in text mode" one could guess that a 3rd person form is more suitable: "displays " ... Nevertheless the non 3rd person form dominates: apt-cache search create | grep ' - create' | wc -l 26 apt-cache search creates | grep ' - creates' | wc -l 3 It would be nice to have a small example or a hint for such a synopsis. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org