[arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> 2013/8/1 Karol Blazewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com>:
>> Package descriptions:
>> There was an attempt at improving the descriptions last year, but it
>> didn't go so well
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/bitcoin&id=bd4647fb433c517c03fb08f869944dc987372a69
>
> In my opinion, the changes themselves were successful, but the changes
> were not well received.

That's what I meant, sorry if I haven't made it clear.


> For me, it was instructive in learning about
> which processes should be used in the future.
>
>
> Just to single out the change you linked to, I think:
>
> pkgdesc='Peer-to-peer network based digital currency - QT'
>
> is a clear improvement over:
>
> pkgdesc="Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based digital currency - QT"

I agree that this change was clearly for the better, but there had be
some kind of disagreement since the commits have been mass reversed.
I'm trying to gently prod Arch Overlords so at least I (we?) know what
kind of changes have a chance of being accepted.