> > Do we need package descriptions anybody can understand even without > > knowing anything about the topic or what? > > To an extent, yes. The expectation is that the target audience, > which is a typical Debian user installing packages on a machine, should > be expected to figure out whether or not the package might be useful Not speaking about the poor folks who will *translate* those descriptions and who are not always deep specialists of the package's topic. I just completed the translation of a few Hamradio packages and, wow, the hamradio jargon they use is about as intelligible as Sanskrit to me...:-). It even sometimes takes ages before one can *understand* that the package deals with hamradio. So, just like many other people said in this thread, please try thinking about the user who just comes on a given package description because (s)he "apt-cache search"ed some random words....:) Package descriptions are sometimes not considered as important as they are.
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