Launchpad itself

Drop .description for distroseries

Bug #125385 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Launchpad itself
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Bug Description

<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy> begins with the text:
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This is the branch destined to become Ubuntu 7.10 in October 2007.

This is the branch destined to become Ubuntu 7.10 in October 2007.
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This is a bit redundant.

<kiko> mpt, can you file a bug for 1.1.9 to drop distroseries.summary (or .description, whichever is the least useful)

Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Confirmed
Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Low
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.1.12 → 1.2.2
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

This is now part of registry-simplifications.

Changed in soyuz:
milestone: 1.2.2 → none
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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Summary is used in more places that description. Description is used in one place and that where we see the redundancy.

summary: - Drop .summary for distroseries
+ Drop .description for distroseries
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

We can fix this in the redesign work for derived distros.

tags: added: derivation
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

A .description can be multiple paragraphs, and as such, it should appear only on the Overview page for an object. It's not a bug that it's used only in that place.

<https://dev.launchpad.net/RegistrySimplifications> proposed that .summary, not .description, be dropped consistently for Product, Productrelease, Project, and Distroseries. .summary would be retained only for Productseries (since it is a single-line field and in that case it would be inaccurate to call it a .displayname).

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