RFC: Description text in packages

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:27 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The means of overcoming inertia is to ignore it and do what you wanted
> to do anyway. The means of not overcoming inertia is to wait for
> something to overcome inertia to do stuff.

The way to get stuff done is to ask users to stick to a trivial standard
(that most people are already using) that takes no more work. If you're
asking packagers to paste random UTF-8 characters from "Character Map",
into a spec file, then we've failed, as people are not going to do that.

Richard.