On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * lose the article
>
> Why?
* it wastes space that is precious in the short description
* it's implicit
* see the archives of this list
> > * do
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * lose the article
> Why?
Because Branden is agent sent by Russians to demoralize our English
grammarians, and removing article advances his agen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * lose the article
> Why?
Because
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis
states t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:14:05AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:20:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I though the limit was 60 chars, as stated in one of the debian
> > documents.
> >
> > Friendly,
>
> Beside the fact that is was to hurry in sending t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:03:26AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > * lose the article
>
> Why?
>
> > * do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper
> > noun, proper adjective, abbrevi
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:20:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I though the limit was 60 chars, as stated in one of the debian
> documents.
>
> Friendly,
Beside the fact that is was to hurry in sending that mail (synopsis was short
enough), as i can read from Policy (I've 3.5.10), it must be less
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:18:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> * lose the article
Why?
> * do not capitalize the beginning of the description unless a proper
> noun, proper adjective, abbreviation, or acronym requires it
Why?
ciao,
--
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegan
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:09:24PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
> > about "A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> [...]
> > Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
> > GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
>
> Description field is inappropri
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:21:18PM -0400, Jim Penny scribbled:
[snip]
> > > > > Description field is inappropriate, use something like:
> > > >
> > > > > Description: A GNU/autoconf alternative.
> >
> > > > Try "an alternative to GNU autoconf" or "a substitute for GNU
> > > > autoconf", to avoid
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
> > Try "an alternative to GNU autoconf" or "a substitute for GNU autoconf",
> > to avoid confusion with Debian's alternatives syste
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:14:56PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
> > about "A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Aut
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De
> > > Vitis wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
> about "A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf"?
Sorry for my previous reply to this message, your suggestion is definitely
good.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> It's not quite a substitute, as it won't reuse autoconf's configs etc. How
> about "A tool for configuring software source similar to GNU Autoconf"?
I see your point, but your suggestion is still too long: it should be
rephrased to
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:59:19PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> >
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Steve Langasek scribbled:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
> scribbled:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternativ
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> [...]
> > Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
> > GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
>
> Description field is inappropri
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
scribbled:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> [...]
> > Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to
> > GNU/autoconf (configure scripts).
>
> Description field is inapp
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
[...]
> Description : The pmk project aims to be an alternative to GNU/autoconf
> (configure scripts).
Description field is inappropriate, use something like:
Description: A GNU/autoconf alternative.
ciao,
--
Luca - De Whis
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-24
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: pmk
Version : 0.4.5
Upstream Author : Damien Couderc & Xavier Santolaria
* URL : http://premk.sf.net/
* License : BSD
Description : The pmk project aims to be an alt
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