Your message dated Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:46:19 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#518176: kanif: improve debian/control::Desciption to
say taktuk at 1st line
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regarding kanif: improve debian/control::Desciption to say taktuk at 1st line
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Package: kanif
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: minor
$ apt-cache search s kanif
kanif - cluster management and administration swiss army knife
SUGGESTION
As this utility is taktuk based, it would be helpful if the 1st line
annouced this. It's mentioned in long description; but that's not
available for quick searches.
Alternative:
cluster management swiss army knife based on taktuk
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kanif depends on:
ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii taktuk 3.6.2-2 efficient, large scale, parallel r
kanif recommends no packages.
kanif suggests no packages.
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On 04/03/09 at 18:51 +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> jaalto wrote:
> > $ apt-cache search s kanif
> > kanif - cluster management and administration swiss army knife
> >
> > SUGGESTION
> >
> > As this utility is taktuk based, it would be helpful if the 1st line
> > annouced this. It's mentioned in long description; but that's not
> > available for quick searches.
>
> Why do you think it is so important that knife is based on TakTuk that
> it should be specified in the short description ?
>
> The long description gives arguments about TakTuk: "It relies on TakTuk
> for efficiency and scalability". Without them (ie "efficiency and
> scalability"), TakTuk would have been removed from the description.
> The dependency would have been enough (similarly, the description do not
> talk about perl).
>
> > Alternative:
> >
> > cluster management swiss army knife based on taktuk
>
> why not: "cluster management swiss army knife based on TakTuk and perl" ?
> I doubt that TakTuk is so much well-known that talking about it in the
> short description would help users.
>
> And, if you search tool around TakTuk, you find kanif easily:
> $ apt-cache search taktuk
> kanif - cluster management and administration swiss army knife
> libtaktuk2 - C bindings for taktuk
> libtaktuk2-dev - C bindings for taktuk (development files)
> taktuk - efficient, large scale, parallel remote execution of commands
> $
> What do you mean when you say that "that's not available for quick
> searches" ?
Hi,
I agree with Vincent's POV, so I'm closing this bug.
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