Bug#566390: texlive-lang: formating suggestions for long description

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Gerfried,

thanks for your caring for the descriptions.

Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.at> wrote:

>  The long description of your packages could need some formating
> improvements. First of all they start off with non-sentences. Please use
> complete sentences, they are using their subject and verb.

These descriptions are provided by upstream, and it doesn't make sense
that we change them if they don't follow.  I agree with the general
Debian guidelines for using complete sentences.  However, in this
particular case I find it hard to argue with upstream why for example

 Support for typesetting German.
 .
 This package includes the following CTAN packages:

is worse than

 This package provides support for typesetting German.
 .
 It includes...

What do you think - do you have any convincing arguments?

>  Secondly, the listed hyphen-* parts don't contain anything after their
> dashing.

That's a bug in the upstream scripts or data, we'll forward this.

>  Thirdly, the Homepage URL is missing its trailing /. Please be notified
> that this results in two requests to the webserver instead of a single
> one, the first is receiving a 301 Moved Permanently response.

fixed in SVN

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg