On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:10:09PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:56:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Fellas, looking in the Packages files, some big packages have little > > descriptions, some little packages have big descriptions, > > and this package description went wee wee wee, all the way home. > > Why does this belong on debian-devel instead of debian-curiosa?
because some packages have really crappy & useless descriptions. the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one source file which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = "dev files for libfoo", libfoo-doc = "documention for libfoo", and libfoo = "runtime files for foo library", without bothering to describe what "foo" actually is. well, duh! like nobody would ever guess that a package called libfoo-doc was the documentation for libfoo. tell the reader something we DON'T know. a package description is supposed to tell someone who has never heard of "foo" before a little bit about it, not just multiple variations of foo's name. craig