On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:14:05AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:20:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I though the limit was 60 chars, as stated in one of the debian > > documents. > > > > Friendly, > > Beside the fact that is was to hurry in sending that mail (synopsis was short > enough), as i can read from Policy (I've 3.5.10), it must be less then 80 > characters for sure (5.7.1). > > "Description: <single line synopsis>" should be shorter then 80 characters > (reasonably), so the "<single line synopsis>" should be about 60-65 > characters.
Mmm, dh_make create a template saying : Description: <insert up to 60 chars description> And the new maintainer guide documents this. Friendly, Sven Luther
