On 05/19/2017 12:45 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2017-05-19 12:27, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
Other then the "must not start with an article" which even I as a native English speaker don't understand, I think these are reasonable, when loading Yast to search for something the first thing you see is the package summary so personally I think maintaining reasonable quality summaries is important. Its also something that
Why is it not allowed to spell words with correct case-sensitivity, like iPhone, openSUSE or strerror(3)?
That is a real rpmlint bug. The intent was probably to be helpful, but they botched it.
Don't understand this especially because we don't even want real sentences ending with period.
The summary is not a regular sentence. It need not have a subject nor a verb. Like with music pieces, it is something of a title (and before you ask, I am not going to enforce the camelugly Title Casing either, thankyouverymuch). For the same reason, they also do not need an article. In fact, such feels rather squatty and redundant in a list like
kbounce A bounce ball game aisleriot A solitaire game for KDE dustrac A tile-based 2D racing game freeciv A Qt client for Freeciv freeciv A Gtk client for Freeciv
I wonder what's wrong here? Better "Yet another bounce ball game"? Just "bounce ball game" would sound odd to me. For me it's a valuable information that something is just *a* bounce ball game among others. "A bounce ball game" is IMO a very good summary and could be used for any other bounce ball game too.
... 0ad-data The Data Files for 0 AD marble The KDE frontend for a globe thing tetrinet-server The GNU TetriNet server ... ...
And if you have a case where the plural is used, there just is no room for an article anyway.
"A collection of bounce ball games" "Various bounce ball games" At the end it's just a matter of taste. Also note that sometimes such summaries or descriptions are just copy/pasted from upstream home pages. And why would I want to waste time rewording the upstream summary. For example echse: A cron daemon on RFC 5545 (ical) files It's perfect IMO. cu, Rudi
blasphere Replacement files for "Heretic"
On the other hand spec-cleaner always translates the tag "URL:" into "Url:"
They redeclared that a "feature" (like some other issues) https://github.com/openSUSE/spec-cleaner/issues/55 I'd probably say: don't use that tool.
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