On 17-May-2005, Adrian Mastronardi wrote: > Package: gromacs > License: GPL > Description: GROMACS - Molecular Dynamics Simulator The synopsis (first line of the Description field) should be a noun-phrase, and should not repeat the package name. When writing it, you should imagine your synopsis being automatically put inside a sentence: <package-name> is <summary-line>. Thus, this is bad: Package: foo Description: FOO - Frobulating Schvitzer. bla bla bla because it results in "foo is FOO - Frobulating Schvitzer.." This is better: Package: foo Description: a frobulating schvitzer bla bla bla because it results in "foo is a frobulating schvitzer." <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-desc-basics> -- \ "Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse." -- Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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