Re: Anyone know anything about 3dwm?
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:52, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003, Andrew Pollock wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to prepare a QA upload of the 3dwm source package, and close a
> > few of the trivial bugs assigned to it (mainly binary package descriptions
> > being shite).
>
> Yes, they all suck pretty much. Here are my suggestions:
>
> Package: libcelsius
> Description: operating system abstraction library for 3Dwm
> 3Dwm is the Three-Dimensional Workspace Manager. It defines a full user
> environment with support for three-dimensional user interfaces using a 3D
> widget kit. It also provides some backwards compatiility with all the major
> existing windowing systems using VNC.
> .
> This is libcelcius, 3Dwm's low-level interface library. It provides an
> abstraction layer for details of the underlying operating system such as
> threads management, mutex handling, synchronization, shared memory and
> dynamically linked libraries.
> .
> This package provides the runtime shared library for libcelcius.
In the package-specific details (which I am happy to see you have placed
first in the description), you should probably drop the "This is
$PACKAGE" detail. Instead, write "$PACKAGE is [...]", which seems a
little more direct.
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Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
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