That sounds very good description to me. Thanks.

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Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>

> On 21 Jan 2020, at 09:41, Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Le 21/01/2020 à 09:11, Ondřej Surý a écrit :
>>> A domain name is a sequence of labels separated by dots, such as
>>> foo.example. Each label may contain any bytes. The length of each
>>> label may not exceed 63 charactes. The total length of a domain name
>>> is limited to 253 (byte representation is 255), but other protocols
>>> (such as SMTP) may apply even smaller limits. A domain name label is
>>> case preserving, comparison is done in a case insensitive manner.
>> 
>> that is extremely bad package description, it describes domain name,
>> and not what the package does and why it’s useful.
> 
> You are right. What about the following?
> 
> This module provides an abstract type for domain names, as defined by
> RFC 1035. It provides useful functions that operate on domain names
> while guaranteeing invariants such as the length limit.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Stéphane

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