I think this report is invalid, as the description confirms to the policy
as quoted below.

The top beginner question is "will kvm run on my hardware?" (based on
about half a year of experience providing support for KVM in #kvm on
the Freenode network - I don't do this regularly anymore), which of
course is the basic question that needs to be answered in order to
decide whether they want to install it.  This is why I included the
procedure to determine this in the package description.

Debian Policy Manual, 3.4:
"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."
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions

>From section 3.4.2
"The description field needs to make sense to anyone, even people who
have no idea about any of the things the package deals with."

The reasons for the recommended and suggested packages are also
described as per policy:

Debian Policy Manual, 3.4:
"The description should also give information about the significant
dependencies and conflicts between this package and others, so that
the user knows why these dependencies and conflicts have been
declared."

I do however support adding the same information to the
README[.Debian] file, to give a chance to the overly optimistic users
who just do an "apt-get install kvm" without ever reviewing the
package description.

Thanks for helping to improve the package,

Cheers,

-- Leonard



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