Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 19 October 2012 15:01:57 Pacho Ramos wrote: > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? actually the opposite here ... DESCRIPTION should be a sentence fragment, and should av

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 21-10-2012 a las 09:34 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió: > On 20 October 2012 03:01, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hello > > > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > > warning? > > In Englis

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 20 October 2012 03:01, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? In English, phrases don't end with a full stop. As has been argued elsewhere in this t

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:36:36 +0200 Thomas Sachau wrote: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", > > would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a > > repoman warning? DESCRIPTIONs don't and shouldn't contain complete sente

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:27:05 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote: > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > sentence... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)#Major_and_minor_sentences > > Suggests that even a phrase such as the second example above can be > called a (minor) sentence. Ah, good to know. In

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:27 +0200, Peter Stuge escribió: > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > So, rephrasing the example Alexandre pasted, consider: > > > > > > x11-libs/qt-core - The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application > > >development framework. > > > > > > vs. > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: > > So, rephrasing the example Alexandre pasted, consider: > > > > x11-libs/qt-core - The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application > >development framework. > > > > vs. > > > > x11-libs/qt-core - A comprehensive C++ application development framework >

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 19/10/12 22:01, Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman warning? Thanks for your opinions I've just dropped the dot from sci-calculators/galculator without readin

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: >> At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", >> would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a >> repoman warning? > I dont know any such requirement from english nor german and neit

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:37 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:01:57 +0200 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > > warning? > > In my opi

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Sentences in English not only need to end with a dot but also require a > subject > and a predicate. Another repoman check? And don't forget the topic for Japanese.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 19/10/2012 21:36, Thomas Sachau ha scritto: Pacho Ramos schrieb: Hello At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman warning? Thanks for your opinions I dont know any such requirement from engli

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:01:57 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? In my opinion, descriptions should not be sentences. Sentences in English not only nee

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 21:01 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? > > Thanks for your opinions In English, it is also mandatory to end sentenc

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > Hello > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? > > Thanks for your opinions > I dont know any such requirement from english nor german and neither do i see

Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman > warning? > > Thanks for your opinions > I don't really see the advantage or upside. Engl

[gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
Hello At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman warning? Thanks for your opinions signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part