[pkg-php-pear] RFS: php-mail-mime/1.8.8-1

[Prach Pongpanich]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> wrote:
>  ❦  6 août 2013 11:21 CEST, Prach Pongpanich <prachpub at gmail.com> :
>
>> Could you please sponsor it?
>>
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php-mail-mime.git
[..]
>>  - W: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description (#717340)
>
> I think you should add an override for this (with a comment to the
> bug). I would have done myself and uploaded it but then I noticed the
> short description: "Mail_Mime provides classes to create MIME messages".
>
> I understand this is less work to automatically extract description from
> the upstream package but this also means suboptimal description. In this
> case, the description starts with the name of the package. Also, the
> long description seems to miss a paragraph break. I think if upstream
> description is not of the required quality, the macros should not be
> used. I don't know if this has already been discussed on the list. Maybe
> people on debian-l10n-english at ldo could also have some insights on this.

Hi Vincent,

Sorry for the late reply. I agree with you for this, I will revert to
the previous description (short and long) and add an override for the
shortpear-package-not-using-substvar [1].

[1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/pear-package-not-using-substvar.html

Regards,
 Prach