Dear Mono developers, Please write useful long descriptions for your packages. For example: $ apt-cache show libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil Description: Mono SharpZipLib library Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Novell. Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library. . This package contains the Mono SharpZipLib library version 0.84. This is not a useful long description: the first 5 lines are the same for all mono packages, and as such become useless in describing this package. The last line is a copy of the short description, plus the version field, and still doesn't tell anything about what SharpZipLib does. Please try to write descriptions that try to answer questions like these: * Why should I install it? * I want to develop mono applications: should I install it? * I want to run mono applications: should I install it? * What is the problem that gets solved by installing this package? Please also see this other thread for a previous discussion on the same problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00281.html Ciao, Enrico who got frustrated when trying to categorise it. -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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