Re: Position of the generic description

2010-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: > Wasn't at some point proposed to include the generic part of the description > _at the end_? > I'm now used to finding the different part of the description at the end, > but I remember at the beginning it was annoying having to skip a bunch of > text. I've looked

Position of the generic description (was: Re: Bug#555743: dpkg-gencontrol: add support for Description:-s in the Source package stanza)

2010-03-02 Thread Raphael Geissert
[ message irrelevant to the bug report, so not CC'ing it ] Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> The expansion would simply copy >> the COMMON TEXT from the source package description (if any) at the >> beginning of each binary package description (possibly add