Bug#635634: [libhtml-template-perl] extended description copied verbatim

Filipus Klutiero chealer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 18:48:35 UTC 2011


Package: libhtml-template-perl
Version: 2.10-1
Severity: normal

Policy 3.4 explains:

> This description should not just be copied verbatim from the program's 
> documentation. 

But the extended description of libhtml-template-perl appears to come 
directly from 
http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template/lib/HTML/Template.pm#DESCRIPTION

It reads:

> HTML::Template attempts make using HTML templates simple and natural.  It
> extends standard HTML with a few new HTML-esque tags - <TMPL_VAR>,
> <TMPL_LOOP>, <TMPL_INCLUDE>, <TMPL_IF> and <TMPL_ELSE>.  The file
> written with HTML and these new tags is called a template.  It is
> usually saved separate from your script - possibly even created by
> someone else!  Using this module you fill in the values for the
> variables, loops and branches declared in the template.  This allows
> you to separate design - the HTML - from the data, which you generate
> in the Perl script.

Notice the error in the first sentence. "you" should also be avoided in 
descriptions.

BTW, "Templates" doesn't have to be capitalized in the short description.






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