Your message dated Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:43:59 +0100
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and subject line gnome-office: please be more specific in package description
has caused the Debian Bug report #335855,
regarding gnome-office needs a better description or revision of dependencies
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Package: gnome-office
Version: 1:2.10.2.5
Severity: normal
It is not clear what exactly is the gnome-office package. By looking at
the package's dependencies, one can find out what it is, but there is no
real way to figure that from the package description.
The first paragraph of the description seems to be the most misleading
one, saying that the package provides "The GNOME Office suite". Googling
"GNOME Office suite" brings as first result
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ which does not use the term "GNOME
Office suite". This page explains why the package depends on AbiWord and
Gnumeric, but not the other dependencies. Later in the top 10 Google
results the Debian package page is found, then a klik one.
The second paragraph of the description explains the other dependencies,
but the two paragraphs seem to be inconsistent. One would expect to
only find details in the second paragraph.
I don't know what "GNOME Office suite" means. The package description
should either stop using that term or clarify what it means
(Debian-specific term?). If the term is Debian-specific, addressing
#335855 would be a good idea.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gnome-office depends on:
pn abiword-gnome Not found.
pn dia-gnome Not found.
ii gimp 2.2.6-1 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii gnome-core 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii gnumeric 1.4.3-4 GNOME spreadsheet application
pn inkscape | sodipodi Not found.
pn planner Not found.
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--- Begin Message ---
> The package description states that :
>
> GNOME Office consists among other things of a word processor,
> spreadsheet, diagram editor, database admin tool and programs
> for image manipulation, vector drawing, financial accounting
> and project management.
>
> But I don't know which one is the word processor, what I should launch
> in order to have a databse admin tool, and so on. So please add the
> application name next to its function in the description. Thanks.
I don't think being that specific is necessary. If you don't know which
application does what (and you can't infer it from its name), you can look at
its description.
Furthermore we don't do this for e.g. gnome-core, gnome-accessibility or
gnome-devel, and I don't think that's going to change.
Cheers,
Emilio
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