From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:18:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210300318.42931.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350673317.12879.30.camel@belkin4>
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On Friday 19 October 2012 15:01:57 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> 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?
actually the opposite here ... DESCRIPTION should be a sentence fragment, and
should avoid useless self referencing. such as starting with "${PN} is ...".
thanks, i can already connect the ${PN} to this description.
i clean that up (and delete the trailing dot) whenever i see it.
-mike
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-19 19:01 [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "." Pacho Ramos
2012-10-19 19:27 ` Doug Goldstein
2012-10-19 19:36 ` Thomas Sachau
2012-10-19 21:25 ` vivo75
2012-10-20 10:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-20 16:51 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-10-19 20:17 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-10-19 20:37 ` Michał Górny
2012-10-19 22:37 ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-20 6:09 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-20 14:27 ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-20 14:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-20 16:14 ` Michał Górny
2012-10-20 10:12 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-10-21 1:34 ` Ben de Groot
2012-10-21 6:37 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-21 4:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-10-22 4:42 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-10-30 7:18 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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