On 02/10/2017 04:32 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On വ്യാഴം 09 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2017 11:48 വൈകു, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> It doesn't matter that your package is small and that users won't normally >> install it directly. It's still mandated that it includes a description, and >> ftpmasters are only doing their job. > > That is like treating debian policy a holy book that is perfect till > eternity and that will not be changed. I agree it makes sense or > packages that are going to be installed by users directly. What I'm > asking for is to consider a change in the policy when the package is > expected to be installed only as a dependency of some other package. We > could probably just add some additional metadata in debian/control or > have apt and other tools hide these packages by default (there was > another suggestion like this earlier in this list).
Long descriptions are useful for *any* package, and I don't want to see exceptions granted so that they are badly written, too short, and not descriptive. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)