Re: Bug#185997: ITP: gnome-ticker -- Gnome Ticker is a Stock watching program.
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:14, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> > I always try to stay close to what upstream names and describes about
> > "their" application. The wonderful thing about our package system is
> > being able to change these things as we go. Upstreams description is a
> > bit underpowered, but will change as it matures into a more powerful
> > application.
>
> I can agree with the name, but not with the description. A large
> quantity of upstream descriptions of packages are badly worded, lack
> detail, have too much detail, are written for the wrong audience, or
> were designed to go in a man page or web site somewhere, and not in a
> list of thousands of packages. They can almost always be improved,
> though they might be a useful starting point. I have filed more bugs
> that I can remember on descriptions that were copied from a README, web
> site, or man page, and were very lacking.
This document[1] seems to be very useful to help Sean write the
description.
[1] = http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html
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Gustavo Franco <stratus@legolas.alternex.com.br>
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