Andrew Lee wrote:
> Dear Joey and Tetralet,
> 
> I found this in the prepared upload:
> Description: Extremely fast and lightweight file manager for the X
> Window System
> 
> - According to developers-reference 6.2.2, it says the synopsis shoud
> not starts with a capital letter.

Ugh!  Stupid!  Stupid!  That's a stupid should clause.

It shouldn't start with a proposition like "A", "The", "An" etc.

> - It's 80 characters long and just fit the screen, but I found it
> displays ugly(more than one line) in the output of apt-cache.

I'd say it shouldn't be longer than 60 characters as a general
rule.

> So I would like to change it to a short one:
> Description: extremely fast and lightweight file manager for X

I'd leave out the "extremely" since this may be subjective, but
otherwise it's ok.  (and I would start with a capital letter
since it looks better, but that's not conforming with the DR
as I just found out *sigh*)

Regards,

        Joey

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