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


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