Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

2002-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Walters wrote: > > The single line synopsis should be kept brief - certainly > - under 80 characters. > + under 80 characters. This should be a sentence fragment > + which summarizes the key features provided by the package. > + It should no

Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

2002-03-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:43:02AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Colin" == Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> Hi, this is not a major problem, but I'd like to see a bit more > Colin> consistency among the package descriptions. The attached patch should > Colin> be self-exp

Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

2002-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:10:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > cd /tmp/ > diff -u -L /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.sgml.gz -L > /tmp/policy.sgml.new /tmp/jka-com6962AcG /tmp/policy.sgml.new > --- /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.sgml.gz > +++ /tmp/policy.sgml.new > @@ -2397,7 +2397,9 @@

Bug#139969: debian-policy: dubious shell programming advice re: set -e [patch included]

2002-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"era" == era eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: era> The sections which recommend the use of set -e are IMHO a bit off the era> mark. The recommendations imply that failing silently is a Good Thing era> and that not handling errors sensibly is okay in shell scripts. Really? If you

Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

2002-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Colin" == Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Colin> Hi, this is not a major problem, but I'd like to see a bit more Colin> consistency among the package descriptions. The attached patch should Colin> be self-explanatory. A quick analysis of the Packages file suggests Colin> there i

Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

2002-03-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:10:14AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Hi, this is not a major problem, but I'd like to see a bit more > consistency among the package descriptions. The attached patch should > be self-explanatory. A quick analy

Bug#139969: debian-policy: dubious shell programming advice re: set -e [patch included]

2002-03-26 Thread era eriksson
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal The sections which recommend the use of set -e are IMHO a bit off the mark. The recommendations imply that failing silently is a Good Thing and that not handling errors sensibly is okay in shell scripts. In summary, relying on set -e to tra

Bug#139957: period at the end of short description?

2002-03-26 Thread Colin Walters
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, this is not a major problem, but I'd like to see a bit more consistency among the package descriptions. The attached patch should be self-explanatory. A quick analysis of the Packages file suggests there is already a rough consensus in agree

Bug#139820: debian-policy: Overlong lines in .ps version

2002-03-26 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:49:34 -0600, Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm the current developer of the DebianDoc-SGML package. (Just to clarify: my only concern is that the PostScript copy of the Policy Manual is not 100% usable at the moment. I'm not laying the blame on any parti