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Re: Bug#492922: ITP: arpon -- arp handler inspection

Subject: Re: Bug#492922: ITP: arpon -- arp handler inspection
From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:20:08 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:33:39AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Guus Sliepen ha scritto:
> > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:27:55PM +0200, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> > > 
> > >>   Description     : arp handler inspection
> > > 
> > > That is not a short description, that is just the expansion of the
> > > acronym.
> > 
> > Yes, this won't to be package synopsis.
> 
> Then you've submitted the ITP report incorrectly. That field should be
> the intended 'Description' field of the package.

Where's that written? I don't mean to be objectionable, but no such
requirement is listed in the developer's reference:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#newpackage

I think it's more important to submit an ITP early to avoid duplicate
work than to spend more time perfecting the package description.


Hamish
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