Bug#3607: marked as done (rc description: no ext)
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From: iwj-descriptionreporter@master.debian.org (Ian Jackson)
To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: rc description: no ext
Package: rc
Version: 1.4-2
An automatic check of the Description control file fields of all the
packages in the current Debian i386 distribution has found that this
package has some problems:
No extended description
These are explained in greater detail below.
For details of how to write a Description field, please refer to the
packaging guidelines installed as an Info document with recent
versions of the dpkg program. Select `guidelines' from the main
Info menu, and then `Appendix' from there. The second item,
`How to write the Description control file field', is what you
want.
If you believe my script has a bug so that it has misinterpreted your
package's Description and that the comment above therefore doesn't
apply to your package, please let me know. If you think the language
in the guidelines doesn't clearly enough forbid what you did, please
let me know about that too.
I have reported this to maintonly@bugs.debian.org. In order to close
the report you should it Reply and edit the To field so that it
contains NNNN-done@bugs.debian.org and my special
iwj-descriptionreporter address. There is no need to CC debian-devel,
as they will not have received a copy of this report.
Here are the explanations for the faults the script has found:
* No extended description:
This means that the Description field was only one line long - ie,
it didn't have any extended description at all. Every package
should have an extended description which describes what the package
does and its relationships to other packages, so that the user can
decide whether to install it.
The summary description I saw was:
An implementation of the AT&T Plan 9 shell.
Thank you for your time,
Ian Jackson.
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