On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 05:51, Martin Schulze wrote: > It is a bad practice to repeat the package name as the first word in the > long description.
Fair enough. Fixed. > Also the URL does not belong into the description but should be > placed in the debian/copyright file instead. > > To quote Joey Hess: > The Description field is not intended to be a random dumping-ground > for any information that cannot fit into some other field. I think this is somewhat controversial. Having them in the debian/copyright file doesn't help people who are just browsing the packages in aptitude or whatever. So I added whether or not a URL should go in to the controversial section.