Bug#210007: The package description does not follow Debian policy

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:43:13AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> 
> > Package: modconf
> > Version: 0.2.44
> > Severity: important
> > Justification: section 2.3.3
> >
> > Your package does not comply with the policy as it does not provide
> > a proper extended descrition. Policy section 2.3.3 states:
> >
> >      The description should be written so that it gives the system
> >      administrator enough information to decide whether to install the
> >      package.
> 
> Hmm, really?
> 
>  Modconf provides a GUI for installing and configuring device driver modules.
> 
> As a user, I consider this enough. If you don't even know what a
> device driver module is, I doubt a longer extended description will
> really help.

I have a feeling that Javier did mass bug reporting against all packages
with oneliner descriptions.

Friendly,

Sven Luther