I have caught-up the discussion on the topic of the short description
now. (I was not subscribed to debian-policy so I didn't follow the
discussion itself.) As the original bug-submitter I want to make
some final comments:
* I agree with most of Branden's proposal since it grants consistency
in
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:04:08PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
That wasn't addressed to me, but my reaction is the same as it was to
the original proposal: this doesn't belong in policy. It belongs in
dev-ref or the packaging manual, or some similar set of guidelines for
maintainers.
I yield
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: normal
Point 6 of section 12.8.5 Packages providing fonts reads:
Font packages may, instead of placing files directly in the X font
directories listed above, provide symbolic links in the font directory
which point to the files' actual
Howdy,
The first paragraph of section 9.4 of the Debian Policy Manual
misspells `comments' as `commments'. This is still present in the
latest CVS version.
Matt
On 22-Aug-01, 12:30 (CDT), Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find this assertion in tension with the one you make later that the
one line description should be targetted at people who _don't_ have any
idea what the package is. Why would such people know what HTTP
stands for?
I
CVSROOT:/cvs/debian-policy
Module name:debian-policy
Changes by: jdg Wed Aug 22 16:26:45 PDT 2001
Modified files:
. : policy.sgml upgrading-checklist.html
debian : changelog
Log message:
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