[libcgi-formbuilder-perl] 04/04: Avoid using first person in long description

Damyan Ivanov dmn at moszumanska.debian.org
Fri Nov 29 14:37:49 UTC 2013


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commit a54bbccf05af86278e295038afedde6735affbb5
Author: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 29 14:37:36 2013 +0000

    Avoid using first person in long description
---
 debian/changelog |  1 +
 debian/control   | 31 ++++++++++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index adf795d..83c69dc 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ libcgi-formbuilder-perl (3.08-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Add a patch fixing test failures with perl5.18. Closes: #720959
   * use canonical VCS URLs
   * replace cpan.org/modules URL with metacpan one
+  * Avoid using first person in long description
 
  -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org>  Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:58:10 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3ab8d9a..0db65fe 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,23 +24,21 @@ Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: ${cdbs:Recommends}
 Suggests: ${cdbs:Suggests}
 Description: Easily generate and process stateful CGI forms
- Do you hate generating, processing, and validating CGI forms?
- Do you love Perl?
+ CGI::FormBuilder is a Perl module for generating, processing, and validating
+ CGI forms. It's an extremely fast and robust module with a ridiculous set of
+ features.
  .
- FormBuilder is the answer. It's an extremely fast, robust Perl module
- with a ridiculous set of features.
- .
- Here's the main stuff that I [the author] think is cool:
+ Highlights:
  .
   * DWIMmery
- This module tries to "Do What I Mean". Tell it the fields you care
+ FormBuilder tries to do what you mean. Tell it the fields you care
  about, and it takes care of all the stupid HTML and JavaScript
  generation and processing for you. It also gives you back the correct
  values that you want. It will even label your fields automatically with
  human-readable names.
  .
   * Input field abstraction
- You simply define your fields and their options, and FormBuilder will
+ Simply define your fields and their options, and FormBuilder will
  take care of figuring out what the best HTML representation is. It will
  then generate the appropriate input fields (text, select, radio, etc),
  even changing any JavaScript actions appropriately.
@@ -60,12 +58,11 @@ Description: Easily generate and process stateful CGI forms
   * Robust field validation
  Form validation sucks, and this is where FormBuilder is a big help. It
  has tons of builtin patterns, and will even generate gobs of JavaScript
- validation code for you. You can specify your own regexps as well, and
- FormBuilder will even check multivalued select lists correctly. See the
- full list of built-in patterns.
+ validation code for you. It is possible to specify your own regexps as well,
+ and FormBuilder will even check multivalued select lists correctly.
  .
   * Multiple submit mode support
- FormBuilder allows you to reliably tell whether the person clicked on
+ FormBuilder allows one to reliably tell whether the person clicked on
  the "Update" or "Delete" button of your form, normally a big pain.
  .
   * Template driver support
@@ -74,14 +71,14 @@ Description: Easily generate and process stateful CGI forms
   * CGI::FastTemplate
   * Text::Template
   * Template Toolkit
- If you want to build a complete form application with a template in
- less that 20 lines of Perl, FormBuilder is for you.
+ FormBuilder can help building a complete form application with a template in
+ less that 20 lines of Perl.
  .
   * Internationalized, Customizable Messaging
- Sick of US-centric modules? You can customize every single message that
- FormBuilder outputs for your locale. See the full messages list.
+ FormBuilder allows customization of every single message that ot outputs for
+ given locale.
  .
   * Simple Interface
- Heck, I specialized in User Interface Design for my degree!
+ The author has specialized in User Interface Design.
  .
   * Extensive Documentation

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