Bug#491150: errors on package description page

Harka Jinen jinensan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 15:32:35 UTC 2008


Hi Gregor,

thanx for getting back to me.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:46 PM, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:

>> > 1.'reccomends' should be 'recommends'

> Thanks for spotting this; already fixed in our subversion repository.

Anytime!

>> > 2. More importantly, 'minimal' should in all likelihood be 'maximum'.
>
> I'm not so sure about that point. RFC 2109 [0] says in "6.3
> Implementation limits":
>
>  Furthermore, general-use user agents should provide each of the
>  following minimum capabilities [..]
>
>   * at least 4096 bytes per cookie (as measured by the size of the
>     characters that comprise the cookie non-terminal in the
>     syntax description of the Set-Cookie header) [..]
>
>  User agents created for specific purposes or for limited-capacity
>  devices should provide at least 20 cookies of 4096 bytes,
>
> As I understand this section, "minimal cookie size" seems quite ok.

OK, I'll take your word for it. But the package description sounds
very contradictory in that case. I'd suggest changing it to avoid that
impression.

Have a great day!

Harka

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