From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:36:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5081ABC4.9030203@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350673317.12879.30.camel@belkin4>
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Pacho Ramos schrieb:
> 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
>
I dont know any such requirement from english nor german and neither do
i see any benefit from adding a dot at the end of the DESCRIPTION
variable. So if you want to have a unified behaviour all over the tree,
i would request all descriptions to be without the final dot.
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Thomas Sachau
Gentoo Linux Developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-19 19:37 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
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