On 08-May-2016, Niklas Sombert wrote: > Then I would change the description to: > > Description: displays an aquarium with ASCII art
That synopsis you've written still is not a noun phrase :-)
The synopsis should be a noun phrase saying what the package *is*. A
package does not *do* anything; you're not describing a program,
you're describing a package. See the Developer's Reference §6.2.2.
Consider: The synopsis for ‘asciiquarium’ should be a good answer to
the question “What does the package ‘asciiquarium’ install?”.
The synopsis text should work correctly in a sentence of the form “The
package ‘asciiquarium’ installs {a,an,the} foo bar baz.”
> This program simulates an aquarium with fish and various other things
> and displays it using ASCII art on a terminal.
That looks fine as a long description.
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