Package: pidgin-themes Version: 0.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch The package description for pidgin-themes is in pidgin-English.
# Package: pidgin-themes # Architecture: all # Depends: pidgin (I don't see why this needs to be any stronger than "Suggests", but I'll leave it.) # Description: Smiley themes collection for pidgin Mostly okay. DevRef recommends not capitalising the first word as if the synopsis was a sentence, and on the other hand, there's a good argument for capitalising Pidgin (meaning the app, not the Debian package), but I wouldn't bother if I wasn't already editing it. # This package provides few differents smiley theme for Pidgin Non-native-speakerish misuse of "few" for "a few, several"; distinctly franglais mis-pluralised "differents", and compensatory unpluralised "theme"; missing punctuation. There's no need to say the themes are different anyway; what would be the point of a collection of identical themes? And to help people who are searching with the wrong keywords, I would recommend not just repeating the words "smiley theme"; instead you could talk about "some alternative sets of emoticons". Here in the long description there's also room for a couple of words to explain what Pidgin is for readers who don't happen to know. # They have been downloaded from http://gaim.sourceforge.net Subtly non-native-speakerish present-perfect construction; out-of-date URL (it now redirects to http://www.pidgin.im/, which shows no sign of hosting any downloadable themes). # and from http://www.gnome-look.org/ Mildly redundant preposition; mildly out-of-date URL (it shouldn't start with "www.", but at least the site does still host Pidgin smiley themes); missing punctuation. My revised version guesses that most of the themes come from gnome-look; I would have hoped I'd be able to check this by reading the Copyright file, but that just gives a single list of upstream authors. # It includes only free themes. This paragraph is redundant; it's in Debian main, so users are entitled to take it for granted that it's 100% DFSG-free. # . # Homepage: http://www.pidgin.im/ There's already a bugreport (#615239) to say that this should be a Homepage: field in the source stanza instead of a pseudoheader; but http://www.pidgin.im isn't in any particularly clear sense the home page for gaim-themes anyway. If there's a generic home for themes for Pidgin, I would have guessed it was http://pidgin-themes.org. My proposed revised version: Package: pidgin-themes Architecture: all Depends: pidgin Description: smiley themes collection for Pidgin This package provides some alternative sets of emoticons for the Pidgin instant messaging client, mostly downloaded from http://gnome-look.org/. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru gaim-themes-0.2.pristine/debian/control gaim-themes-0.2/debian/control --- gaim-themes-0.2.pristine/debian/control 2012-12-06 15:50:33.000000000 +0000 +++ gaim-themes-0.2/debian/control 2012-12-06 17:16:48.823046355 +0000 @@ -8,14 +8,10 @@ Package: pidgin-themes Architecture: all Depends: pidgin -Description: Smiley themes collection for pidgin - This package provides few differents smiley theme for Pidgin - They have been downloaded from http://gaim.sourceforge.net - and from http://www.gnome-look.org/ - It includes only free themes. - . - Homepage: http://www.pidgin.im/ - +Description: smiley themes collection for Pidgin + This package provides some alternative sets of emoticons for the Pidgin + instant messaging client, mostly downloaded from http://gnome-look.org/. + Package: gaim-themes Architecture: all Depends: pidgin-themes
