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

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
> 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 :-)

Oh, hm, if apt-cache also reformats, I guess I don't really care.  I
didn't think it did, but I haven't checked.

>> 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).

Okay.  I'm not sure this is going to buy us that much in the long run, but
since you're doing nearly all the work at the moment, I'm definitely not
going to stand in your way and you've been right about other things like
this in the past.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>