What I'm going to do: Was: RFC: Description text in packages

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Fri Dec 19 01:05:30 UTC 2008


Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 09:10 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > This still needs to go before our packaging committee methinks.

> Yes. I'm still talking with the other distros, and most are /okay/ with
> the idea. 99% of package don't need any changes, it's only the 1% that
> already look different to the others.

I.e., 99% of packages are just fine with normal text, and you want to futz
around for the sake of the remaining 1%, thus risking breakage in the vast
amjority that works dandy today?

Doesn't sound very reasonable to me.
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