Hi,

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 00:03, Michal Jeczalik Jr wrote:

> > THe short descriptopn in the control file shouldnt start
> > with a capital letter.
>
>  Most of short descriptions in debian packages starts with capital
>  letter, so what is the rule?

See the Developer's Reference section 6.2.2 "The package synopsis, or short 
description".

> Debian policy, 5.1:
> ,, Field names are not case-sensitive, but it is usual to capitalize
>    the field names using mixed case as shown below.''

The short description is not the field name, it is the field value. The field 
name is "Description".

-Frank
-- 
Nunc vino pellite curas! -- Horaz


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