On 15 October 2015 at 11:11, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > One major pain point is unfortunately something ridiculously easy to > fix, but which nobody seems to care about: the long & short descriptions > format. These are usually buried into the setup.py black magic, which by > the way I feel is very unsafe (does PyPi actually execute "python > setup.py" to find out about description texts? I hope they are running > this in a sandbox...). > > Since everyone uses the fact that PyPi accepts RST format for the long > description, there's nothing that can really easily fit the > debian/control. Probably a rst2txt tool would help, but still, the long > description would still be polluted with things like changelog, examples > and such (damned, why people think it's the correct place to put that...). > > The only way I'd see to fix this situation, would be a PEP. This will > probably take a decade to have everyone switching to a new correct way > to write a long & short description...
Perhaps Debian (1 thing) should change, rather than trying to change all the upstreams packaged in it (>20K) :) -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
