Package: gwhere
Followup-For: Bug #702375
Tags: patch
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> "at each once" → "every time".
Or since the package description has other minor problems that aren't
present in the current upstream blurb, how about simply importing that
text (patch attached)?
Detailed package description review:
> Description: Removable media catalog manager
^
DevRef says synopses shouldn't be capitalised.
> GWhere allows to manage a database of your CDs and other removable media (hard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Objectless "allows to" is a classic non-native-English-speakerism.
The revised upstream blurb also phrases it more smoothly as "a catalog
[...] indexed in a database".
> disks, floppy drive, Zip drive, CD-ROM, etc...). With GWhere it's easy to
It doesn't index the drive, it indexes the disks; and this list would
be improved by an introduction along the lines of "such as".
> browse your CDs or to make a quick search without needing to insert your CDs
> in the drive at each once.
Upstream has rephrased this, too. Revised version:
| Description: removable media catalog manager
| GWhere allows you to manage a catalog of your CDs and any other removable
| media (such as hard disks, floppy disks, Zip disks, CD-ROMs, etc...)
| indexed in a database. With GWhere it is easy to browse your CDs or to
| make a quick search without needing to insert each CD one after another.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru gwhere-0.2.3.dfsg.1.pristine/debian/control gwhere-0.2.3.dfsg.1/debian/control
--- gwhere-0.2.3.dfsg.1.pristine/debian/control 2013-03-05 23:48:02.000000000 +0000
+++ gwhere-0.2.3.dfsg.1/debian/control 2013-03-06 00:04:43.056273272 +0000
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
Package: gwhere
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Removable media catalog manager
- GWhere allows to manage a database of your CDs and other removable media (hard
- disks, floppy drive, Zip drive, CD-ROM, etc...). With GWhere it's easy to
- browse your CDs or to make a quick search without needing to insert your CDs
- in the drive at each once.
+Description: removable media catalog manager
+ GWhere allows you to manage a catalog of your CDs and any other removable
+ media (such as hard disks, floppy disks, Zip disks, CD-ROMs, etc...)
+ indexed in a database. With GWhere it is easy to browse your CDs or to
+ make a quick search without needing to insert each CD one after another.
