>> avg. bytes per description lines 66321.8 A> Is that just a meaningless number, or is there actually a correlation A> between package size and description length?
Somebody with statistics experience might go further and see if little packages have big descriptions and visa versa etc. Anyway, one liner "snob" descriptions just have to go. $ apt-cache show emacs21 Description: The GNU Emacs editor GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. Oops, I see, it is self-documenting.