[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#969540: Bug#969540: librust-directories-1-dev: short package description is too long

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 04/09/2020 à 18:11, Daniele Forsi a écrit :
> Package: librust-directories-1-dev
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the short package description is not suitable to be shown on a single line because it is 341 characters long :
> "Tiny mid-level library that provides platform-specific standard locations of directories for config, cache and other data on Linux, Windows and macOS by leveraging the mechanisms defined by the XDG base/user directory specifications on Linux, the Known Folder API on Windows, and the Standard Directory guidelines on macOS - Rust source code"
> 
> 
> The policy says:
> "The single line synopsis should be kept brief—certainly under 80 characters."
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#the-single-line-synopsis

Looking at rust-* here:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/synopsis-too-long.html

seems that we have a bunch of problem here. :)

S