On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:17:46PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:52:55PM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:35:42PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > I also think that that short description should be as close as possible > > > to a real sentence. > > > Agreed. Thatswhy I prefer the period. :) > > I strongly disagree. Most packages have a noun clause as the first > line of the description, not a sentence, and thus, capitalization and > a period would be grammatically incorrect. This could, of course, be > changed by mandating that the first line _be_ a sentence, but it would > gain us nothing except redundancy and awkwardness in most cases. > > Thus: > > Package: foo-ed > Description: editor for foo files
What's wrong with: Description: Editor for foo files ? I mean, this isn't about grammer, this is about consistency. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
