Bug#399190: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#399190: octave-headers: Lack of clarity in package description

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Sun Nov 19 08:28:57 CET 2006


* Reuben Thomas <rrt at sc3d.org> [2006-11-19 01:15]:

> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> >I will do this change if you can change the whole sentence, otherwise it
> >will become quite awkward (repetition of "architecture-specific"):
> >
> >   The package is architecture-specific as it contains architecture-
> >   specific compiler switches in the mkoctfile script.
> >
> >So, I am open to you further suggestion.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't read closely enough. Change the second 
> "architecture-specific" to "architecture-dependent" or 
> "per-architecture" or "machine-specific" (permute as desired)?

Thanks.  I will change it to:

    The package is architecture-specific as it contains machine-dependent
    compiler switches in the mkoctfile script.

if the other members of the DOG do not object.    
 
-- 
Rafael




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