On 2013-10-02 17:50:40 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > I established an advantage for the user using my proposal - go get > me a disadvantage for the packager.
As a user, I dislike long version strings. > That said, what's the point in NOT being verbose? Version strings need to be displayed, and if they take too much space, they may be truncated (e.g. in aptitude). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131004113135.gf3...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr