(Removed those points that resulted from my unfamiliarity with Debian package description formatting. Reported bug 88803 about displaying them better in Launchpad.)
** Summary changed: - Package description is mispunctuated and very out of date + Package description is very out of date ** Description changed: - Binary package hint: firefox + "Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to + Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface + language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform. - "Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to - Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface - language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform. - . - This browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix." + This browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix." - This description is woeful. - * Firefox is not "a redesign of the Mozilla browser component", it is a Web browser produced by Mozilla. (This sentence was apparently written before 2003, back in the days when "Mozilla" meant "the Mozilla suite".) - * Yucky linebreaks. - * Using Galeon or K-Meleon as examples to explain what Firefox is doesn't make sense, since (with all due respect to their developers and users) few people have ever heard of Galeon or K-Meleon. + This description is very out of date. + * Firefox is not "a redesign of the Mozilla browser component", it is a Web browser produced by Mozilla. This sentence was apparently written before 2003, back in the days when "Mozilla" meant "the Mozilla suite". + * Using Galeon or K-Meleon as examples to explain what Firefox is no longer makes sense, since (with all due respect to their developers and users) few people have ever heard of Galeon or K-Meleon, and of those who have, approximately zero of them won't already know what Firefox is too. * "Written using the XUL interface language" is (at least in theory) an irrelevant implementation detail. * "Lightweight" is accurate only in comparison with the Mozilla suite, which again, was relevant only before 2003. - * Stray dot. Suggested replacement: "Firefox is the famous Web browser from Mozilla, featuring support for Web feeds, a built-in popup blocker, and advanced tabbed browsing." -- Package description is very out of date https://launchpad.net/bugs/88232 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
