On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 11:51:03AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > It is a bad practice to repeat the package name as the first word in the > long description.
Actually it's bad in the short description, not necessarily in the long one. > 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. You leave out the part where we agreed on having it _both_ in the copyright file and in a new field of the control file. (That whole thread was wrongly summarized in DWN recently.) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.