Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:55:41 +0100
> Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
>>
>> * Package name : plum
>> Version : 0.1
>> Upstream Author : Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
>> * URL : http://github.com/maximeh/plum
>> * License : BSD
>> Programming Lang: C++, Python, Shell Scripts
>> Description : plum is a command line tool used to interact with the
>> U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product
>
> Couldn't the package use a name which is more clearly identified as
> related to either lacie or uboot? The more specific the package name
> the better, unless the package is going to gain support for the uboot
> netconsole on many more products. The package name is far from being as
> specific as the package itself. General purpose names are (relatively)
> fine for general purpose programs.
Well, plum is an acronym for Python LaCie das U-Boot Milchkuh, I'm not
really good at giving names, if you have any idea, feel free to share.
>
> The Description isn't suitable for a real package, it should at the
> very least refer to uboot and lacie. Whichever keyword doesn't get
> added to the package name needs to be in the short description.
The word U-Boot and LaCie are in the description already.
>
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>
> Neil Williams
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