Debian bug report logs - #1502 Uniform lists in debian.control Package: ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd ; Reported by: Erick Branderhorst ; 33 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Thu Sep 28 19:03:24 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: Re: Bug#1502: Uniform lists in debian.control 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1502 ; Package ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From fgg.eur.nl!branderhorst Thu Sep 28 05:33:32 1995 Return-Path: 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 Subject: Uniform lists in debian.control 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Erick Branderhorst : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1502 ; Package ltxtool ltxgraph term ical mtools wu-ftpd . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov