RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 20:16:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:48:42 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> > For instance, the following are over long, or repeat the program name:
> > 
> > * System daemon that is a DBUS abstraction layer for package management
> > * XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top of Xerces-C
> > * DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD)
> > 
> > The following would be good replacements:
> > 
> > * Package management framework
> > * XQuery and XPath 2.0 library
> > * Create video DVDs and CDs
> > 
> * It would be good to have the program name mentioned here as well.

Please don't. That has lead to many summaries, which look ugly
if displayed next to the package name:

  name - name is a...

Especially ugly if package name and program name are even written in
the same case. Many many users don't care what name a program is given
as long as it does what they want.

Better make sure that hardly any packager does the following in a spec

%description
%summary

to reuse the summary as the description.




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