David Smith wrote: > Please review this updated package description for the package liferea.
You left out the synopsis line: Description: feed aggregator for GNOME This makes me wonder exactly how GNOME-specific it is, but otherwise looks good. > Liferea is a linux feed reader that brings together all of the content > from your favorite news feeds into an interface that's easy to organize > and browse. > > TinyTinyRSS and TheOldReader connections are supported so that you can > synchronize your feeds and (un)read items across multiple devices. > > Supported news formats include Rich Site Summary (RSS), Atom > Syndication (Atom), Resource Description Framework (RDF), and Channel > Definition Format (CDF). The original was somewhere low down on my list of packages to get round to, but expanding the initialisms does nothing to fix the main thing that was wrong with it. If I don't know what an RSS feed is, learning that it stands for "Rich Site Summary" isn't going to help, and expanding "Atom" to "Atom" is particularly futile. My only comment that really rates as an English usage issue is s/linux/Linux/, which had already been mentioned - you might even capitalise it as "LInux FEed REAder" to make the why-the-name hint clearer (see footnote). The main problem that's left is that if (like me) you've never used a feed reader, there's very little here to tell you what functionality such an application offers. It's very clear about which particular XML syndication formats it supports - but why should users care about that question if the answer is "all the standard ones"? Or are there important formats it _doesn't_ support? Compare Wikipedia, which describes it as supporting "the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom", doesn't mention CDF, but later mentions that it also supports OCS and OPML, whatever those are. The mention of the interface is a definite improvement - at least now I can be sure Liferea isn't a CLI tool like wget, or a daemon that updates my bookmarks overnight, or some such. But it still doesn't really convey the idea that Liferea has a GTKish interface modelled after a threaded mail/newsclient with an embedded graphical browser; and there's still no mention of what it is that it's aggregating beyond the label "news", which is a poor description for most of the stuff people use subscriptions for. Looking at the upstream homepage I see that they list features like * Read articles when offline [...] * Permanently save headlines in news bins * Play Podcasts in Liferea Aren't these worth mentioning? I mean, maybe they're routine features of any Feed Reader, but now that the other Feed Readers aren't being mentioned any more... So I would suggest something roughly along the lines of: Description: feed aggregator for GNOME Liferea is a Linux feed reader that brings together all of the content from your favorite web subscriptions into a GUI that's easy to organize and browse. It supports: . * aggregating feeds in all the major syndication formats (including RSS/RDF, Atom, CDF, and more); * synchronizing feeds across devices, with TinyTinyRSS and TheOldReader support; * downloading articles to read while offline; * permanently saving headlines in news bins; * playing podcasts directly in Liferea's browser interface. Obligatory WhyTheName footnote: It's easy to guess that the person who coined the name was German; LiFeRea is a style of abbreviation that seems vaguely unpopular with native anglophones, though I don't know whether that's because it's hard to guess how it should be pronounced or whether such coinages just remind people too much of cases like "GeStaPo" and "KomSoMol". Sticking "Linux" on the front wasn't a great choice anyway, given that it apparently builds for kfreebsd-*. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org