Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-09 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Enrico Zini wrote: While these blurbs are informative, they provide information not strictly related to the package itself. As a consequence, if you do "apt-cache search image" you get all of pike, including irrelevant things like "pike7.6-public.network.pcap" or "pike7.6-public.protocols.syslo

Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:18:19PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > For example, the pike blurb could be summarised with something like: > > Pike is an interpreted, object-oriented, dynamic programming language > with a syntax similar to C. To learn more about pike, see the package > pike7.6 or

Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:52:57PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2006-07-08 kello 12:40 +0200, Enrico Zini kirjoitti: > > some groups of packages in Debian share introductory pieces in the > > package description. For example, most pike packages have this: > I tend to like them, if they're co

Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-08 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:47:48PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:40:57PM +0200, Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Many thanks to the KDE developers for removing the similar blurb that > > they used to have. They did it nicely, and in a way that others could > >

Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:40:57PM +0200, Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks to the KDE developers for removing the similar blurb that > they used to have. They did it nicely, and in a way that others could > follow. ... which is... ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
la, 2006-07-08 kello 12:40 +0200, Enrico Zini kirjoitti: > some groups of packages in Debian share introductory pieces in the > package description. For example, most pike packages have this: I tend to like them, if they're concise and at the end of the description. They save me from having to lo

Long blurbs repeated in many package descriptions considered harmful

2006-07-08 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, some groups of packages in Debian share introductory pieces in the package description. For example, most pike packages have this: Pike is an interpreted, object-oriented, dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to C. It includes many powerful data types and a module system