Johannes Rohr wrote: > I'd say that writing a meaningful package description is certainly the > duty of the individual package maintainer. A package maintainer should > usually have an idea of what his/her package is good for, while Javier > would probably have to spend a lot more time to figure that out, at > least for lesser known packages. However, not providing a better description will (likely) not get anything done. > I don't think that filing a bug saying that "Your extended package > description does not meet Debian policy requirements. Please consider > writing 4-5 lines to give sysadmins an idea what your package can do > for them." means asking too much from a Debian maintainer. You don't. But I can't help but think that there are a lot of obvious maintainer's duties more or less neglected - often by simple obmission, but sometimes patterns show. Cheers T.
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