From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB61138010 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A7ABE06D6; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D9721C052 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.43] (pool-71-246-221-8.washdc.fios.verizon.net [71.246.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tetromino) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7FBD233DAEE for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1350677858.29987.41.camel@rook> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "." From: Alexandre Rostovtsev To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:17:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1350673317.12879.30.camel@belkin4> References: <1350673317.12879.30.camel@belkin4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2f09e8cc-9efb-4547-9a49-cdd63b14396b X-Archives-Hash: 968e1f79973eb554c22df68388c114d7 On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 21:01 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? > > Thanks for your opinions In English, it is also mandatory to end sentences in "." But package DESCRIPTION strings are almost never complete sentences; in the vast majority of cases, they are just titles that are noun phrases grammatically, and therefore do not need a "." For example, nobody would call descriptions of gcc ("The GNU Compiler Collection"), libX11 ("X.Org X11 library"), or polkit ("Policy framework for controlling privileges for system-wide services") complete English sentences. For one thing, they don't have verbs. Some packages do have DESCRIPTIONs that are complete sentences grammatically: x11-libs/qt, for example, has "The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application development framework." (and it ends in a ".") So for those cases, the ebuild maintainers could append "." if they want to. But even then, I would not make something this trivial into a requirement.