From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5e8N-0000CU-6B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0F3EE03F3; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52704E03F3 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.75]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n4HB2J0Z019435 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:02:20 +0200 Received: from a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n4HB2JxG029248; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:02:19 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.14.0/Submit) id n4HB2Jeb029242; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:02:19 +0200 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18959.61115.100479.153990@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:02:19 +0200 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size In-Reply-To: <4A0FDEE6.8080605@gentoo.org> References: <4A0FDEE6.8080605@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.2-487 under Emacs 22.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: 07c566ae-1be7-4a6b-9c03-ab54b7de3389 X-Archives-Hash: 34eb964e5ef91fe2ca569cc4570ef91e >>>>> On Sun, 17 May 2009, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > According to devmanunal [1], DESCRIPTION should be 80 characters max It says "less than 80" so 79 is the maximum. ;-) > but according to repoman, DESCRIPTION should be 100 characters max. > I'm confused, who should I believe ? :) > [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html The devmanual also says "Where possible, try to keep lines no wider than 80 positions." which would limit DESCRIPTION to 66 characters. These are guidelines, not strict rules. Keep it shorter if it's reasonably possible. Ulrich