On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:04:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Description : De-archiver for .ace files > > > > This is clumsy. Please say "extraction utility for .ace archive files" > > It's analogous to the descriptions in arj and unzip.
... which says nothing of whether those are any good. "Archiver for .arj files" is fine, but we don't speak of "de-archivers" in English. Unarchive is tolerable. > > or something similar (see descriptions for unarj, zoo etc for ideas). > These are not in Debian (not in main at least). Again, irrelevant. > I don't mind changing it, but you should speak with the maintainers of > arj and unzip first (just for the sake of consistency). In the case of package descriptions, I don't think that consistently bad is better than inconsistent. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
