RFC: Description text in packages

[Christopher Stone]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> Although some features are under development, currently Mousepad has following
> features:
>
>    * Complete support for UTF-8 text
>    * Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
>    * Search and Replace
>    * Font selecton
>    * Word Wrap
>    * Character coding selection
>    * Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
>    * Manual codeset setting
>    * Infinite Undo/Redo by word
>    * Auto Indent
>    * Multi-line Indent
>    * Display line numbers
>    * Drag and Drop
>    * Printing


Putting feature lists in descriptions is stupid.  Obviously, you would
have to update the description after each release which is stupid.  It
is most likely that feature lists in descriptions are simply cut &
paste jobs from an upstream web site which is stupid.