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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:19:30
Message-Id: 201210300318.42931.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "." by Pacho Ramos
1 On Friday 19 October 2012 15:01:57 Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would
3 > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman
4 > warning?
5
6 actually the opposite here ... DESCRIPTION should be a sentence fragment, and
7 should avoid useless self referencing. such as starting with "${PN} is ...".
8 thanks, i can already connect the ${PN} to this description.
9
10 i clean that up (and delete the trailing dot) whenever i see it.
11 -mike

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