Debian Bug report logs - #3607
rc description: no ext

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: iwj-descriptionreporter@master.debian.org (Ian Jackson)

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: rc description: no ext

Date: Sun, 7 Jul 96 14:44 BST

Package: rc
Version: 1.4-2

An automatic check of the Description control file fields of all the
packages in the current Debian i386 distribution has found that this
package has some problems:
 No extended description

These are explained in greater detail below.

For details of how to write a Description field, please refer to the
packaging guidelines installed as an Info document with recent
versions of the dpkg program.  Select `guidelines' from the main
Info menu, and then `Appendix' from there.  The second item,
`How to write the Description control file field', is what you
want.

If you believe my script has a bug so that it has misinterpreted your
package's Description and that the comment above therefore doesn't
apply to your package, please let me know.  If you think the language
in the guidelines doesn't clearly enough forbid what you did, please
let me know about that too.

I have reported this to maintonly@bugs.debian.org.  In order to close
the report you should it Reply and edit the To field so that it
contains NNNN-done@bugs.debian.org and my special
iwj-descriptionreporter address.  There is no need to CC debian-devel,
as they will not have received a copy of this report.

Here are the explanations for the faults the script has found:

* No extended description:
 This means that the Description field was only one line long - ie,
 it didn't have any extended description at all.  Every package
 should have an extended description which describes what the package
 does and its relationships to other packages, so that the user can
 decide whether to install it.

The summary description I saw was:
 An implementation of the AT&T Plan 9 shell.

Thank you for your time,
Ian Jackson.

Message #10 received at 3607-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 3607-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:00:27 +0100 (CET)

This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer

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