Hi Phil, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Julien Lamy <l...@unistra.fr> writes: > ... > > Would you agree with the following modifications? > > > > Short description: C++ wrapper library for DCMTK (DICOM toolkit) > > I think it ought to mention "medical imaging" or some similarly > understandable (to an outsider) phrase in the short description. > > Then again, looking at the DCMTK packages, their descriptions strike me > as pretty useless, which I see is just a reflection of the web site for > DCMTK, which does not have the word "medical" anywhere on its extensive > main page, only mentioning the type of images on linked pages such as > the 'Introduction to DICOM' page. > > The 'amide' package seems to have gone the other way: > > software for Medical Imaging > > which strikes me as better, and has the benefit of turning up in > apt-cache searches for all of DICOM, DCMTK and medical, whereas the > dicom* packages don't come up for the 'medical' search. i.e.: > > apt-cache search medical > > Also, I note that the extra info you included makes it plain that DCMTK > is also a C++ library, which is something that I'd not worked out from > the long description. You might want to make sure that's clear. > > That's perhaps completely obvious to the target audience though, in > which case the only important thing is to make sure that non medics will > get the message "Not for you" as quickly as possible, preferably in the > short description. > > Strangely enough I think the dcmtk* packages achieve that, since: > > OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities > > tells me that I have no interest whatsoever in this, because I've no > idea what OFFIS or DICOM stand for (or at least that was the case last > week ;-) ) > > So, either make the short description meaningful to all, or make it > obviously uninteresting/incomprehensible to the uninterested.
Fully ACK. Any competent volunteer to fix the dcmtk desctiption (which would be better as if I would try this). Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150724215851.gs26...@an3as.eu