On 13-Nov-02, 09:00 (CST), Laurent Mazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Package name : libemf
> Version : x.y.z
> Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.some.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
The point of the template is to actually fill-in the various fields. :-)
> Description : libEMF is a C/C++ library which provides a drawing
> toolkit based on ECMA-234.
Don't repeat the package name in the brief description. Just "A C/C++
library..." is sufficient.
> libEMF is a C/C++ library which provides a drawing toolkit based on
> ECMA-234. The general purpose of this library is to create vector
> graphics files on POSIX systems which can be imported into
> StarOffice/OpenOffice. The Enhanced MetaFile (EMF) is one of the two
> color vector graphics format which is "vectorially" understood by
> SO/OO.
Don't repeat the brief description as the first line of the full
description. All the Debian tools that show the full also show the
brief.
steve
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Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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