Bug#774928: ITP: libcoap -- library for the CoAP protocol written in C

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carsten Schoenert -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libcoap Version : 4.1.1 Upstream Author : Olaf Bergmann * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcoap/ * License : GPL2+ and BSD Prog

length of a package extended description

Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra! Shouldn't the length be limited by the Debian policy? Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a configurable way to limit the output of the "Descript

Re: length of a package extended description

On Jan 09, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Shouldn't the length be limited by the Debian policy? Shouldn't the length be limited by common sense? In this case I think that listing the packages without the description of each one would be enough... -- ciao, Marco pgpbuMAQ6Ch9n.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: length of a package extended description

Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: length of a package extended description"): > On Jan 09, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Shouldn't the length be limited by the Debian policy? > > Shouldn't the length be limited by common sense? Yes. > In this case I think that listing the packages without the description

Re: length of a package extended description

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended > description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra! > > Shouldn't the length be limited by the Debian policy? > > Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such

Re: length of a package extended description

On 2015-01-09 16:02:52 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Vincent, perhaps you would care to file a bug with a patch which > reduces the description to a plausible size ? I reported https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774942 but the maintainer disagrees. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: length of a package extended description

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Some texlive-* packages (and perhaps others) have a huge extended > description, e.g. more than 1900 lines for texlive-latex-extra! > > Shouldn't the length be limited by the Debian policy? Some data: count of packages with descs o

Re: length of a package extended description

Adam Borowski writes ("Re: length of a package extended description"): > Some data: count of packages with descs of a given length: ... Here's Adam's data with cumulative package count, and cumulative percentage: > 1- 4 13772 13772 30% > 5- 9 21324 35096 77% > 10- 14 6531 41627 91% >

Re: length of a package extended description

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 li

Re: length of a package extended description

> Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a > configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve what you want to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: length of a package extended description

On 2015-01-10 07:05:48 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: > > Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a > > configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? > > You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve what you > want to. Obviously not. It may be po

Re: length of a package extended description

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

Re: length of a package extended description

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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). Lines aren't really the issue here; the primary one is space in the Packages file[

Re: length of a package extended description

On 10/01/15 08:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-10 07:05:48 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: >>> Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a >>> configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? >> >> You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve wha

Bug#775016: ITP: hovercraft -- impress.js presentations by reStructuredText

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Stender * Package name: hovercraft Version : 2.0b1 Upstream Author : Lennart Regebro * URL : https://github.com/regebro/hovercraft * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : impress.js presen

Re: length of a package extended description

Don Armstrong writes: > It would probably be ideal if there was a better way of indicating which > latex modules were in each texlive package than currently, but until a > better method is found, this is probably the best of bad options. +1. I cannot overstate how useful it is to have this sort

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-10 4:31 GMT+01:00 Russ Allbery : > Don Armstrong writes: > >> It would probably be ideal if there was a better way of indicating which >> latex modules were in each texlive package than currently, but until a >> better method is found, this is probably the best of bad options. > > +1. I c

Re: length of a package extended description

Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > The issue with the translations is just a consequence, but also > just because the translators don't use a properly designed tool. I very much like such answers. Really. Short followup: patches welcomed. Please note that this is against a basecode