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Re: Re: About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."

From:  Jeroen Roovers <jer-AT-gentoo.org>
To:  gentoo-dev-AT-lists.gentoo.org
Subject:  Re: Re: About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."
Date:  Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:42:15 +0200
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:35:04 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I'm assuming that since we're now having dozen-post threads about
> whether or not to have periods in our descriptions that all the hard
> stuff has been solved?

Perhaps in planning QA, for now, but certainly not in executing it.
Documentation is lacking, too, and then some people still wouldn't read
it anyway, and with more EAPI changes we keep adding more ways to screw
it up, so please stand still while we reinvent the wheels on your desk
chair.

> Sweet, I'll prepare my repoman patch to enforce two spaces between
> sentences in Changelogs. (mwahahahaha)

Don't think for a minute you can foil my scheme to enforce slashes at
the end of URLs when not followed by paths.


     jer




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