[Fedora-packaging] Re: Long and "advertising" descriptions

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:00 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:53:55PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >
> > Sounds good. Not sure, but maybe it's possible to write it a bit shorter  
> > to work against the "guidelines grow and grow" trend (¹). Maybe  
> > something like this is enough:
> >
> > """
> > The description should not be exceed round about ten lines of text and  
> > contain useful data about what the packaged software does. The  
> > description should be written from a distance point of view and not  
> > sound like advertising.
> > """
> 
> I don't think advertising should be mentionned, nor removing the authors, 
> in my opinion this should be left to the packager (and the reviewer). 
-1

> This allows to have a description that fits with what upstream would have 
> wanted for the package description which is, in my opinion, a desirable 
> option to leave, even though it means having some kind of advirtising. 
> So in my opinion it should only be
> 
> """
> The description should not be exceed round about ten lines of text and  
> contain useful data about what the packaged software does
> """
> 
> This should rule out the obscure acronyms, since they are need to be
> explained to have 'useful data about what the packaged software does',
> but leave to the packager room for optional items like advertisement
> and author names.
No.