On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 07:45:07PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Is it really required to duplicate the information already present > under the Version and Package field in the description field?
Well, no, that's not what I'm asking for at all. > Perhaps a better approach, if the descriptions must be different, > would be to add something like (obsolete version), (current version), > (newly released version), (beta version), (alpha version), or > (dangerous version) instead. Exactly. Of what use is saying "this is gcc 2.95; that's gcc 3.0, and over there is gcc 2.7.2" to people who don't already know the significance of those releases? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If encryption is outlawed, only [EMAIL PROTECTED] | outlaws will @goH7Ok=<q4fDj]Kz?. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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