[pkg-nvidia-devel] r972 - in /packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian: changelog control

[Andreas Beckmann]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Hm.  The problem is that the descriptions are going to display like that
> to users, and that looks pretty ugly.  I don't see how we can share

Never thought about the display question. aptitude does reformat the
description anyway, for dpkg -s I don't care about the formatting and
lintian only dislikes too long lines. But I heard rumors, that there are
other package managers (and some don't even run in terminals), too :-)

> debian/control between the regular and legacy packages anyway (the long
> description will need to change to say that this is a legacy package and
> mention which chip sets it supports), so I'm not sure that this really
> buys us very much.

For easy diffing and merging I'd like to have them share as much code as
possible, e.g. by using substvars (The Source: and Package: lines and
some paragraphs of the long description need to be different, of course).


Andreas