Re: Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the > short description for a debconf template is? Well, you're not going to get a "serious" severity bug about it any time soon. However, debconf frontends are designed with strings of about this le

Re: Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the > short description for a debconf template is? Well, you're not going to get a "serious" severity bug about it any time soon. However, debconf frontends are designed with strings of about this l

Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hello fellow developers, I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the short description for a debconf template is? I ask this because some translators seem to be fond of tacking long things in there. This has happened to some fetchmail templates, for example. Should

Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
Hello fellow developers, I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the short description for a debconf template is? I ask this because some translators seem to be fond of tacking long things in there. This has happened to some fetchmail templates, for example. Should