On 07-Dec-02, 16:05 (CST), David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 11:51:03 +0100 > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is a bad practice to repeat the package name as the first word in > > the long description. > > Why is that again?
Because anything[1] that displays the long description also displays the package name right next to it. (Althought I think putting in the long description is less of a problem than in the short description, which is often displayed in situations of limited space.) Steve [1] Ignoring special cases like dpkg-grep-available, or whatever it's called. -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net