On 2015-01-10 05:03:56 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > (I am not subscribed to Cc, due to obvious reasons, so please Cc > me any further *relevant* remarks - I don't care for the rants) > > concerning Vincent's email: he mentioned that: > > but the maintainer disagrees. > but he did not mention that: > * half of the package descriptions are empty lines, to make each > contained CTAN package a single paragraph
The blank lines are not the only problem. Removing them would be a big step forward, but the description would actually still be much too long (more than 900 lines). > * this change was made on request of the translators > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493778 This bug report says: "too long package description". This is the main problem. The issue with the translations is just a consequence, but also just because the translators don't use a properly designed tool. The correct solution would be to fix the tool (e.g. to support lists), not to introduce lots of blank lines useless for the end user. > It is an extremely useful feature to search for CTAN package names > as well as keywords in the short description of CTAN packages. Instead, some texlive package should provide a tool to search for CTAN packages. Thus would be more useful: from some keywords, the user would get the exact CTAN package name(s), instead of just the Debian package "texlive-latex-extra", which doesn't give much information. Moreover this would avoid false positives in one way or the other: getting too many results is just bad as getting nothing. A text file may be sufficient, since such a file is searchable. Similarly, for the same reason to be able to search via apt-cache, the extended description of every Debian package could include each executable they provide with an associated short description. But this would be insane. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150109222346.gb8...@xvii.vinc17.org
