Hi Sam,
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:27:58AM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
merge 400964 400970
thanks
sorry for sending this twice. Don't know what happened.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006, Jens Seidel wrote:
the package description reads:
display large colourful characters in text mode
It should be
displays large colourful characters in text mode
I noticed this during translating of the current Debian Weekly News and try
to report all issues I found this way ...
I beg to differ; imho the short description is what the package is
or what it does, and what the program does is display large colourful
characters. See for instance the output of:
Indeed, this is why I think you are wrong (but I'm no native speaker).
toilet displays large colourful characters in text mode
Otherwise I assume you talk to the user. (Please display large
colourful characters in text mode to ...)
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-desc-basics
mentions:
quote
It might help to imagine that the synopsis is combined with the package
name in the following way:
package-name is a synopsis.
Alternatively, it might make sense to think of it as
package-name is synopsis.
or, if the package name itself is a plural (such as developers-tools)
package-name are synopsis.
/quote
This is what I did (except that I omitted the verb).
apt-cache search create | grep ' - create'
the majority of short descriptions follows what I have been using.
Oops, you're right. OK feel free to close this bug report.
Jens
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