Bug 1073463 – Update descriptions in comps.xml

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Bug 1073463 - Update descriptions in comps.xml

Summary:	Update descriptions in comps.xml

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	releng (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	beta
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Assigned To:	Jan Blazek
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Blocks:	1073465
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Reported:	2014-03-06 08:36 EST by Daniel Mach
Modified:	2015-03-05 06:24 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-03-05 06:24:40 EST
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rhel7 comps patch (2.52 KB, patch) 2014-03-06 08:36 EST, Daniel Mach	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHEA-2015:0524	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	redhat-release enhancement update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1	2015-03-05 11:13:01 EST

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Description Daniel Mach 2014-03-06 08:36:25 EST

Created attachment 871450 [details]
rhel7 comps patch

It's too late to make changes in source strings now (we may get more untranslated strings than we have now), but we should make the change in rhel-7.1.

Comment 1 Paul W. Frields 2014-03-24 09:00:08 EDT

My understanding is these strings are used as descriptions of the comps shown in e.g. the anaconda interface, or yum groupinfo.

These are actually sentence fragments and unless they're used to complete a sentence, or these changes are used to be consistent with some other existing use of periods ("."), they shouldn't get periods at the end.

Comment 2 Daniel Mach 2014-03-24 09:41:09 EDT

I'd say opposite:
Descriptions are not sentence fragments, but whole sentences.
Some descriptions contain more sentences.

Also RPM %description(s) contain sentences and end with periods.
-> My preference is to use periods

Fedora comps are not consistent either:
* 97 descriptions with period
* 41 descriptions without

Comment 3 Paul W. Frields 2014-03-24 09:44:08 EDT

Yeah, the consistency issue makes this less clear.  I'd say we should aim for consistency as much as possible, and the rules of good English will have to take a back seat in this case.

Comment 4 Daniel Mach 2014-08-29 04:51:01 EDT

This has been fixed in 7.0 already

Comment 6 Alexander Todorov 2014-10-31 06:36:20 EDT

As far as I can see all English descriptions in current comps.xml end with a period. Moving to VERIFIED.

# cat Server/x86_64/os/repodata/9546150dbf91698b58c42d7ee6fdbfa03019532e8509d810c65f23ac79511519-comps-Server.x86_64.xml  | grep description | grep -v lang | grep -v "\.</description>"
    <description/>
    <description/>
#

There are two groups with empty description tags: 
Anaconda Tools and Remote Desktop Clients

Let me know if you'd like me to open another bug for this issue.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 06:24:40 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-0524.html

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