Re: setup.hint documentation issues

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 17/02/2016 14:23, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 09/02/2016 17:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb  9 13:18, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > * 'sdesc' text is mangled in setup.ini (but not the HTML package
> > > list)
> > >
> > > In particular, it is forced to start with a capital letter (which
> > > is incorrect when the sdesc starts with a command name which is
> > > properly lower-case, e.g. "dash shell", etc.), and any text up to
> > > and including the first colon is removed, presumably in an effort
> > > to prevent people writing the package name again, (which mangles
> > > perl and ruby module names in the description, e.g. "Ruby
> > > Net::HTTP persistent connection support", ""Perl Math::Int64
> > > distribution", etc.)
> > >
> > > I'd suggest this mangling is removed, and sdesc starting
> > > "packagename:" is explicitly reported.
> >
> > Sounds good, but where is this mangling performed?  Upset?
>
> Yes, upset currently does this mangling.

This mangling is no longer done.

Instead there is an attempt to enforce the rule (from [1]) that, "the 
package name should not be part of the description", by detecting a 
sdesc which starts "packagename:" or "packagename -", but this is 
probably fairly easy to defeat.

[1] https://cygwin.com/setup.html