Debian bug report logs - #1502 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control Reply-To: Erick Branderhorst , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Erick Branderhorst Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:48:07 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:48:07 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:35:15 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0syI9b-000FMUC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 05:33 PDT Received: from mailgate.eur.nl by pixar.com with SMTP id AA25224 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 05:33:03 -0700 Received: from hp750.fgg.eur.nl by mailgate.eur.nl (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13765; Thu, 28 Sep 95 13:33:18 +0100 Message-Id: <9509281233.AA13765@mailgate.eur.nl> Received: by hp750.fgg.eur.nl (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA15802; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:35:53 +0100 From: Erick Branderhorst To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 13:35:53 MET Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Package: ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd Version: 1.0-3 0.7b-1 2.3.5-5 1.9-1 2.0.7-12 2.4-13 Libc: libc.so.4.6.27 Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486 Reporter: repair 0.1 Subject: Formatting description in debian.control All the above listed packages have a list of items in their description in debian.control. In order to improve dselect and how it is presented to the user it would be better to use a uniform way of listing these. A list like this (MODERATE?): - Item 1 - Item 2 Or a list like this (BEST?): * Item 1 * Item 2 Or something like this (BEST?): * First tool: Short one line description of the first tool. * Second tool: Short one line description of the second tool. * Third tool: Short one line description of the third tool. Or a little more confusing list like this (WORSE?): o Item 1. o Item 2. Whatever you think is the best, but let's agree on one way of doing this. Erick ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Erick Branderhorst Subject: Bug#1502: Acknowledgement (was: Uniform lists in debian.control) In-Reply-To: <9509281233.AA13765@mailgate.eur.nl> References: <9509281233.AA13765@mailgate.eur.nl> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. 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Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 02:18:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 02:18:05 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 02:04:35 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0syUnM-0005mwC; Thu, 28 Sep 95 19:03 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA05432 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 28 Sep 1995 19:03:06 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0syUnH-000BzjC; Fri, 29 Sep 95 03:03 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Fri, 29 Sep 95 02:29 BST Message-Id: Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 02:29 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Erick Branderhorst writes ("Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control"): > Package: ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd > > All the above listed packages have a list of items in their description > in debian.control. In order to improve dselect and how it is presented > to the user it would be better to use a uniform way of listing these. This is a good idea. However ... > A list like this (MODERATE?): > - Item 1 > - Item 2 ... whatever way we do it it is very important (a) that all lines of all descriptions are indented by one space, so that they don't look like new header fields (dpkg-deb will catch this mistake) and (b) that any lists like that that need to be formatted as-is rather than linewrapped be indented by at least one extra space. Ie, something like: Package: ltxgraph description: Color and graphics in LaTeX This is a pre-release of LaTeX packages for: * producing color * including graphics (eg PostScript) files * rotation and scaling of text in LaTeX documents. (this is an actual example from the current distribution). Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1502: Info received (was Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1502" or "Re: Bug#1502" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. 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