Benj. Mako Hill wrote: >>>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. > Often, as in this case, those lapses in obvious (and documented) > maintainer duties, constitute bugs in a package. Maybe I'm > misunderstanding something in your argument here. My argument was based on a matrix lintian error tags <-> maintainers. There's lintian tags practically "owned" by maintainers. That's what I meant with patterns. In those cases, pointing things out directly will help more. In some cases, description deficiencies may be related to English skills (I'm not a native speaker myself). In those cases patches can achieve much more than bugs without patches. Cheers T.
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