From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCHES] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions. Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 23:13:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20150718211303.GA3038@debian> References: <87wpy0nygt.fsf@gmail.com> <87y4ige2ux.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87wpy0t83c.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9p3dkry.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <87615itqu3.fsf@gnu.org> <87380l3hil.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGZPx-0005nZ-4N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:13:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGZPt-0000HM-VY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:13:09 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:60807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZGZPt-0000HF-Mh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:13:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87380l3hil.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Coming late, I have not followed the full discussion closely, so my remark may be out of tune. I think our descriptions should be formatted as simply as possible: just plain ascii text, which would work in any locale (or if you insist, maybe utf8). So far, I simply avoided lists in package descriptions; usually, by replacing "The bla package contains - A - B - C" by "The bla package contains A; B; C." or similarly. Andreas