On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:40:30AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > This is a conservative setup: there are still many MTA that wrap > emails at 80th char, or MUA on terminals limited to 80 chars, so > having that informations stored in 80 columns is helpful for the > maintainer to have a "snapshot" of the installed package in his/her > full screen. > > Moreover, those are info needed by the maintainer to know what > packages are installed on your system, so cutting off some of the > package name or description is usually safe, since the maint knows > enught about the package to map the cutted name to the real package > name.
But if (like in the openoffice example) the cutted package name is "lib" the maintainer could have some problems guessing the name. One could say "use the version/description", but if there are some packages with the same version? (e.g. libgtk/libglib*) > Anyhow, what would be your suggestion? take the whole dpkg -l <pkg> > and use it for the report? This could be a solution, or also you could remove the description column (since a package maintainer "should" know what packages he depends on). ciao R,
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