[Hackage] #346: Add a warning for synopsis being a prefix of the description

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Wed Aug 27 10:56:55 EDT 2008


#346: Add a warning for synopsis being a prefix of the description
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  Reporter:  guest          |        Owner:       
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new  
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:       
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  HEAD 
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:       
Difficulty:  normal         |   Ghcversion:  6.8.2
  Platform:                 |  
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 Many packages provide useless descriptions, just repeating the synopsis.
 Three (all from different authors, and only looking at those with "string"
 as a substring of the name!) include stringtable-atom, bytestring-csv and
 packedstring.

 Suggestion: Give a warning when the synposis is a prefix of the
 description.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/346>
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