Bug 467474 – Inform people DESCRIPTIONs shouldn't be complete sentences and neither end with a dot

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Documentation

[Description Pacho Ramos 2013-04-27 10:07:48 UTC]

As discussed in:
http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/gentoo-dev-about-description-ebuilds-needing-end-dot-help-209315102.html

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2013-04-27 10:42:35 UTC]

Have you thought about a repoman check for the ending dot in DESC (of course only if a strict enforcement is wanted)?

[Comment 2 Eric F. GARIOUD 2013-04-27 11:08:05 UTC]

I failed to read another reason for this than "...to have a unified behaviour all over the tree."

- Is there another one ?
- Is this bug for information only and to be considered for future ebuilds or should I understand that all existing ebuilds must be modified to fulfill this requirement ?

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-05-03 19:20:05 UTC]

Please provide a patch

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-09-28 09:42:18 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #0)
> As discussed in:
> http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/gentoo-dev-about-description-ebuilds-
> needing-end-dot-help-209315102.html
> 
> Reproducible: Always

Description is a sentence. How can it not be? So the bug title is misleading i believe.
I believe is a bit too much to document the "dot" thing in the devmanual. If you want to enforce a unified DESCRIPTION in the tree, you should make it a repoman check instead.