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TO FIX: package COMMENTS
What purpose do the package COMMENTS serve ?
Easy, they give a simple explanation of what the port is for.
When are they used ?
When you list installed packages, thru pkg_info.
What is the limit on their length ?
60 characters, because it's what pkg_info displays.
Having longer pkg COMMENTS is a bad idea, because it gets
truncated, and pkg_info is not as informative as it should be.
Besides, pkg COMMENTS should be terse. Longer description ?
that's what DESCR is for.
pkg_create has been upgraded to give a warning for COMMENTS
over 60 characters.
bsd.port.mk is going to be updated likewise for make install.
In one month, we (yes, I asked Marco about it too)
turn the warning into an error.
This looks like a reasonable delay, doesn't it ?
Here are the ports with problems (yes, I'm guilty for several
of them, including a swap between COMMENTS and DESCR).
If you added a port VERY recently, I've not CVS updated
yet, so you're not in the list.
maintainer: package (length)
----------------------------
angelos@openbsd.org: audio/gsm ( 66 )
angelos@openbsd.org: audio/nspmod ( 64 )
angelos@openbsd.org: comms/pilot-link ( 70 )
angelos@openbsd.org: comms/qpage ( 66 )
angelos@openbsd.org: games/xgolgo ( 68 )
angelos@openbsd.org: games/xonix ( 62 )
angelos@openbsd.org: mail/adcomplain ( 73 )
angelos@openbsd.org: mail/bulk_mailer ( 72 )
angelos@openbsd.org: mail/poppassd ( 68 )
angelos@openbsd.org: mail/xlbiff ( 72 )
angelos@openbsd.org: mbone/rtptools ( 67 )
angelos@openbsd.org: misc/mmv ( 74 )
angelos@openbsd.org: misc/xless ( 72 )
angelos@openbsd.org: print/bibview ( 67 )
angelos@openbsd.org: print/ghostview ( 64 )
angelos@openbsd.org: security/cfs ( 68 )
angelos@openbsd.org: security/libident ( 66 )
angelos@openbsd.org: textproc/catdoc ( 70 )
angelos@openbsd.org: textproc/iso12083 ( 68 )
angelos@openbsd.org: textproc/sp ( 72 )
angelos@openbsd.org: x11/explorer ( 67 )
angelos@openbsd.org: x11/rclock ( 64 )
angelos@openbsd.org: x11/rxvt ( 64 )
angelos@openbsd.org: x11/xdtm ( 62 )
angelos@openbsd.org: x11/xfedor ( 67 )
don@OpenBSD.ORG: graphics/tiff34 ( 62 )
don@OpenBSD.ORG: x11/afterstep ( 68 )
don@OpenBSD.ORG: x11/ctwm ( 69 )
don@OpenBSD.ORG: x11/fvwm2 ( 73 )
don@OpenBSD.ORG: x11/swisswatch ( 65 )
don@openBSD.ORG: lang/STk ( 67 )
downsj@openbsd.org: audio/xmp ( 75 )
downsj@openbsd.org: net/tinyfugue ( 64 )
espie@openbsd.org: lang/egcs-snapshot ( 62 )
espie@openbsd.org: lang/egcs-stable ( 63 )
espie@OpenBSD.ORG: games/nethack ( 61 )
espie@OpenBSD.ORG: games/slash ( 70 )
espie@openbsd.org: games/xkobo ( 67 )
espie@openbsd.org: japanese/Wnn ( 61 )
espie@openbsd.org: net/dxpc ( 485 )
felix@mamba.pond.sub.org: misc/xdelta ( 61 )
form@OpenBSD.ORG: editors/nedit ( 64 )
form@OpenBSD.ORG: graphics/netpbm ( 61 )
form@OpenBSD.ORG: net/ntop ( 61 )
form@openbsd.org: net/licq ( 270 )
gene@OpenBSD.ORG: shells/scsh ( 66 )
graichen@OpenBSD.ORG: x11/xautolock ( 67 )
ian@OpenBSD.ORG: lang/kaffe1 ( 70 )
ian@openbsd.org: math/hoc ( 68 )
ian@openbsd.org: textproc/idiff ( 81 )
ian@openbsd.org: textproc/spiff ( 73 )
joey@OpenBSD.ORG: chinese/lunar ( 79 )
joey@OpenBSD.ORG: net/ircii-epic ( 62 )
joey@OpenBSD.org: editors/beav ( 62 )
joey@openbsd.org: sysutils/tcplist ( 74 )
kiri@kiri.toba-cmt.ac.jp: lang/ocaml ( 61 )
marc@OpenBSD.ORG: mail/metamail ( 67 )
marc@OpenBSD.ORG: news/leafnode ( 64 )
marc@OpenBSD.org: graphics/tiff ???
marc@openbsd.org: devel/ddd ( 79 )
marc@openbsd.org: graphics/ImageMagick ( 63 )
marc@openbsd.org: sysutils/idled ( 69 )
matthieu@laas.fr: textproc/sgmlformat ( 66 )
mickey@openbsd.org: games/xripple ( 71 )
niklas@openbsd.org: archivers/gtar ( 61 )
niklas@openbsd.org: misc/cdrecord ( 68 )
ports@OpenBSD.ORG: comms/kermit ( 76 )
ports@OpenBSD.ORG: devel/id-utils ( 69 )
ports@OpenBSD.ORG: mail/fetchmail ( 67 )
ports@OpenBSD.ORG: www/apache ( 66 )
ports@OpenBSD.ORG: www/navigator ( 71 )
ports@openbsd.org: security/pgp ( 61 )
todd@OpenBSD.org: devel/libslang ( 67 )
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Marc Espie
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