Bug#357664: perl: person name out of package description first line

[Dominic Hargreaves]

tags 357664 + wontfix
thanks

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:59:01AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ dpkg -l perl|sed '$!d'|colrm 80
> ii  perl           5.8.7-10       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
> Nothing against Larry, but
> ii  perl           5.8.7-10       Practical Extraction Report Language
> might be more systematic, less "fan club", "personality cult", and
> fits on an 80 column console.

I don't see this as a desirable change. Neither description actually
tells you much about perl on its own, but I'd even go so far as to
speculate that more people know the name of the author than that
particular acronym expansion, so it's clearly relevant information.
I don't think that including the name of the author is "fan club" or
cultish.

Dominic.

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