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Packages with the same description
From: |
mikadoZero |
Subject: |
Packages with the same description |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:42:27 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Issue:
Packages with the same synopsis and description.
Why does it matter:
This is an issue for people who want to know the difference between the
packages. Particularly if they do not understand dependencies or are not going
to look at the source code for the packages.
Examples:
guile-emacs and emacs
guile-for-guile-emacs and guile
There could be more packages with the same issue.
Cause:
guile-emacs inherits from emacs and guile-for-guile-emacs inherits from guile.
In both cases they do not have their own synopsis or description. This results
in them inheriting the synopsis and description.
Mitigation:
A potential mitigation is to check that if a package inherits it also has it's
own synopsis and description. This check could happen in the linting or
continuous integration.
- Packages with the same description,
mikadoZero <=