Package: youtube-dl Version: 2018.06.18-1.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
While it's easy to get around reading the long apt description for youtube-dl with something like 'apt show package | less' or 'apt show package | head xx' it might not be that intuitive for a novice. There are simpler tools like aptitude and synaptic, but for whatever reason they might actually want to use apt instead. Possibly to learn how to use the command-line. In which case they might just see 50 lines or so of the ~1000 that's displayed using 'apt show youtube-dl'. Debian policy 3.4 says: "The description should describe the package (the program) to a user (system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have enough information to decide whether they want to install it." A solution/outcome could be to limit the list of the supported platform for youtube-dl to some that can be assumed to be the most relevant. Possibly pointing to the full list on 'packages.debian.org' or to the developers site/git repository. That would enable a user to decide if they want to install the package or not more easily. Again with a novice in mind: youtube is a "thing", a novice would probably choose to install something like youtube-dl instead of some library. If they can manage to install and use a package on Debian that'd probably encourage them to keep using the OS. Best regards, Johan. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages youtube-dl depends on: ii python3 3.5.3-1 ii python3-pkg-resources 33.1.1-1 Versions of packages youtube-dl recommends: ii ca-certificates 20161130+nmu1+deb9u1 ii curl 7.52.1-5+deb9u7 ii ffmpeg 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1 pn mpv | mplayer <none> pn phantomjs <none> pn python3-pyxattr <none> pn rtmpdump <none> ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u2 youtube-dl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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