On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:46:19AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > >>>Not all of it, but you can't object to duplicating a single sentence saying > >>>what it is. > >> > >>When the sentence in question is the one that goes in the short > >>description, and already fills the available space without prepending > >>"runtime files for foo "? Is the concern here with the short descs (I > >>don't expect much from short descs of affiliate packages), or with the > >>long descs? > > Long descriptions. See, eg, > > libchipcard20-dev > So this should read like: This packages [sic] contains the development files for libchipcard20. . > libchipcard20 provides an API for accessing smartcards. Examples are memory > cards, as well as HBCI (home banking), German GeldKarte (electronic small change), and KVK (health insurance) cards. The upstream homepage is <http://www.libchipcard.de/>. > ?
That looks good with a little editing. (s/packages/package/ is the main thing I see) Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not sure. | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/
