[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#537564: Bug#537564: Bug#537564: libfontforge1: long description no sentence

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg at fifthhorseman.net):

>  FontForge is a font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts.
>  It is also a font format converter, and can convert among PostScript
>  (ASCII & binary Type 1, some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and
>  OpenType (Type2), CID-keyed, SVG, CFF and multiple-master fonts.
>  .
>  This package contains the runtime library.
> 
> Gerfried, can you confirm that this would be acceptable?


The first sentence could then become the package synopsis.

That would give:

Description:  font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts - runtime library
 Besides being a font editor, FontForge is also also a font format
 converter, and can convert among PostScript (ASCII & binary Type 1,
 some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and OpenType (Type2),
 CID-keyed, SVG, CFF and multiple-master fonts.
 .
 This package contains the runtime library.

As you see, the synopsis, then becomes "$SUITE - $ELEMENT" with $SUITE
being common to all binary packages and $ELEMENT being specific to
each package.

Similarly, the first paragraph is a boilerplate that's used in all
binary packages, and the last paragraph gives information specific to
each binary package.

This is the preferred system that's often proposed in reviews by
debian-l10n-english when we work on packages' descriptions.


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