Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-engl...@lists.debian.org
(I've been dragged in from d-l-e)
> Dear Maintainers,
> reviewing the German translation of the package description from
> libnetpbm9 (1) quite useless. It contains just packaging and historic
> information:
>
> Description: Shared libraries for netpbm (v9)
> This package contains shared libraries used to be used by netpbm.
> Now we've switched to a single shared library, look out for libnetpbm10.
> This package is provided for backward compatibility.
That's also ungrammatical and poorly punctuated English. Given that
the packages depending on libnetpbm9 have a *combined* popcon vote in
single figures, most of it would be conveyed more effectively by
Section: oldlibs
(That's not in my patch, though.)
> The netpbm description explains what netpbm is (2).
>
> Description: Graphics conversion tools between image formats
> Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
> conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There
> are over 220 separate tools in the package including converters for
> more than 80 graphics formats.
>
> I suggest using the netpbm description as first paragraph of all
> package descriptions originating from this source.
That looks to me like a reasonable suggestion. We can't expect
developers to treat library descriptions as very high-priority, since
after all the packages are pulled in automatically when needed, but
when there's a good description lying around spare it might as well be
put to use!
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru netpbm-free-10.0.pristine/debian/control netpbm-free-10.0/debian/control
--- netpbm-free-10.0.pristine/debian/control 2012-04-19 13:48:18.000000000 +0100
+++ netpbm-free-10.0/debian/control 2012-04-19 13:57:21.923392422 +0100
@@ -16,16 +16,21 @@
Conflicts: netpbm-nonfree (<= 1:19940301.1-3), pnmtopng, pbmwbmp, netpbm-dev (<= 2:9.10), ucbmpeg (<= 1r2-6)
Replaces: pnmtopng, pbmwbmp, netpbm-dev, netpbm-nonfree
Provides: pnmtopng, pbmwbmp
-Description: Graphics conversion tools between image formats
+Description: image format conversion tools
Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There
- are over 220 separate tools in the package including converters for
- more than 80 graphics formats.
+ are over 220 separate tools in the collection, including converters
+ for more than 80 graphics formats.
Package: libnetpbm10
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Graphics conversion tools shared libraries
+Description: image format conversion tools - shared libraries
+ Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
+ conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There
+ are over 220 separate tools in the collection, including converters
+ for more than 80 graphics formats.
+ .
This package contains the shared libraries used by netpbm.
Section: libs
@@ -35,7 +40,12 @@
Conflicts: netpbm-dev,libnetpbm9-dev
Replaces: netpbm-dev
Provides: netpbm-dev
-Description: Graphics conversion tools development libraries and header files
+Description: image format conversion tools - development files
+ Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
+ conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There
+ are over 220 separate tools in the collection, including converters
+ for more than 80 graphics formats.
+ .
This development package contains the library and header
files for the pbm, pgm, pnm, and ppm graphics formats.
Section: libdevel
@@ -43,10 +53,14 @@
Package: libnetpbm9
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Shared libraries for netpbm (v9)
- This package contains shared libraries used to be used by netpbm.
- Now we've switched to a single shared library, look out for libnetpbm10.
- This package is provided for backward compatibility.
+Description: image format conversion tools - shared libraries (v9)
+ Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
+ conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There
+ are over 220 separate tools in the collection, including converters
+ for more than 80 graphics formats.
+ .
+ This package contains shared libraries for netpbm version 9,
+ which is now deprecated.
Section: libs
Package: libnetpbm9-dev
@@ -55,10 +69,12 @@
Conflicts: netpbm-dev
Replaces: netpbm-dev
Provides: netpbm-dev
-Description: Development libraries and header files (v9)
- This development package contains the library and header
- files for the pbm, pgm, pnm, and ppm graphics formats, if the split
- and now deprecated libraries are used.
+Description: image format conversion tools - development files (v9)
+ Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
+ conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There
+ are over 220 separate tools in the collection, including converters
+ for more than 80 graphics formats.
.
- This package is provided for backward compatibility.
+ This package contains development libraries for netpbm version 9,
+ which is now deprecated.
Section: libdevel
