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On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:36:36 +0200 |
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Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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> Pacho Ramos schrieb: |
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> > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", |
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> > would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a |
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> > repoman warning? |
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DESCRIPTIONs don't and shouldn't contain complete sentences. If they do, |
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they should be fixed. |
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Wrong description, and grammatically correct: |
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foo-1.ebuild: "Foo is a tool that does bar." |
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Correct description, and grammatically correct: |
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foo-1.ebuild: "a tool that does bar" |
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The point is that you're writing a dictionary entry, and not telling a |
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story. |
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> I dont know any such requirement from english nor german and neither |
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> do i see any benefit from adding a dot at the end of the DESCRIPTION |
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> variable. So if you want to have a unified behaviour all over the |
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> tree, i would request all descriptions to be without the final dot. |
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+1 |
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jer |
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