[Stefano Zacchiroli] > To fix that, it seems to me that the most reasonable solution > advanced in the thread is to add a proper "Description" field to > source package stanzas. Then, in addition, we can setup an automatic > substvar, whose content is the source description, that can then be > used in package description stanzas to interpolate the source > description.
Yes, I think pretty much everyone agrees that this would be the most reasonable approach. I wonder if, in addition (or perhaps instead of the above), it is useful to have a substvar for just the _first paragraph_ of the source Description. What I'm thinking about is a short blurb you want to copy into all your binary packages, but perhaps there is _more_ information you also want to put in the source Description, which it wouldn't be useful to copy everywhere. In particular, I do think a single paragraph should always be sufficient for copying into a binary Description. We don't want those things to get too long! The question then is, might it be useful to have a longer description in the source package? I do not know. Perhaps this additional information always belongs instead in the diff.tar.gz somewhere, like debian/source.README. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org