Bug#550290: libio-capture-perl: improve debian/control::Description to mention 'Perl module'

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Fri Oct 9 06:56:13 UTC 2009


-=| Jari Aalto, Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:58:20AM +0300 |=-
> gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:44:00 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> >
> >> Current description:
> >> 
> >>     libio-capture-perl - Abstract Base Class to build modules to capture output
> >> 
> >> Please improve debian/control::Description to mention 'Perl module' at
> >> the beginning. 
> >
> > Hm, I have to admit that I can't come up with a meaningful noun
> > phrase that starts with "Perl module" in this case.
> 
> Howabout:
> 
>     Perl module implementing Abstract Base Class to build modules to capture output

Sounds a bit long?

The fact that the package contains a perl module is already present 
elsewhere: in the Section: field ('perl') and in the package name 
(lib*-perl). Repeating it in the short description, especially if the 
space is tight seems useless to me.

-- 
dam
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