Re: description writing guide

[Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>]

I think the real issue here isn't so much actual package descriptions, 
but the ITPs. Most package descriptions I've seen have been pretty 
accurate, and tend to change a lot between the time of the ITP and 
actual package release.

Colin Walters wrote:

> I think the package descriptions are a very important product of this
> project.  They're going to be one of the first things people see when
> they use Debian, and their quality directly reflects on the quality of
> Debian.  I've been putting in some random efforts here and there to
> comment on new package descriptions, but I finally sat down and
> committed my thoughts on description writing in a semi-coherent form: