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On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 21:01 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would |
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> you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman |
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> warning? |
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> Thanks for your opinions |
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In English, it is also mandatory to end sentences in "." |
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But package DESCRIPTION strings are almost never complete sentences; in |
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the vast majority of cases, they are just titles that are noun phrases |
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grammatically, and therefore do not need a "." |
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For example, nobody would call descriptions of gcc ("The GNU Compiler |
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Collection"), libX11 ("X.Org X11 library"), or polkit ("Policy framework |
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for controlling privileges for system-wide services") complete English |
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sentences. For one thing, they don't have verbs. |
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Some packages do have DESCRIPTIONs that are complete sentences |
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grammatically: x11-libs/qt, for example, has "The Qt toolkit is a |
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comprehensive C++ application development framework." (and it ends in a |
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".") So for those cases, the ebuild maintainers could append "." if they |
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want to. But even then, I would not make something this trivial into a |
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requirement. |
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