On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:09:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava scribbled: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:43:55 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said: > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:41:26PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> There are far many more packages where I can tellthe description is > >> inadequate (since I do not know what they are going to do, or why > >> to install them), for which I can't provide a patch, because -- > >> guess what, I don't know what they do. > > > It only takes a minute to took at the package and write a > > description, and requires no special tools or skills. This is one > > situation where no one can make excuses about not being a > > programmer. > > Really? I'll bite. > ====================================================================== > Package: pike7.2-gz > Description: Gz module for Pike > This Pike module provides access to zlib compression functions. > ====================================================================== > > > I can find out what pike is. I can even do better than > "Gz module for Pike". But I can't tell if this is an add-on, an > alternative to native compression in pike or not. I can't tell off > hand if there are alternatives. I can't tell, for example, if there > are related modules -- without a whole lot of research, to ensure I > did not miss something which is part of another package. Manoj, why don't you run apt-get update before posting rants? Please? marek
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