Hi Roshan, Please don't take this personally, you just happen to be the one touching the most recent remarkably meaninglessly described ITP for a node-* package -- I could easily have picked on one of the many other examples. I've Bcc:ed the bug to ensure that replies about this stay on -devel. Roshan <dn.roshan2@gmail.com> writes: ... > * Package name : node-pinkie ... > * URL : https://github.com/floatdrop/pinkie ... > Description : Itty bitty little widdle twinkie pinkie ES2015 Promise implementation Can we stop the worthless descriptions in node-* ITPs please? What meaning is contained in the descriptions, is generally JavaScript/Node specific jargon that is pretty much meaningless to anyone else. This is because it is being lifted directly from the git repository description, where it is reasonable for the upstream to expect people to already know something about node, so that's the audience that is being addressed. That is not a reasonable assumption when applied to Debian users in general. To All Node.js packagers: Please proof-read and correct the short descriptions before filing ITPs. Also please fix the script that is generating these ITPs to add a long description that at the very least mentions that this is something to do with node.js, and what that means (such that people that are not interested in node.js can quickly determine that fact and move on). At present you are forcing that vast majority of our users, that have no interest in this software, to individually learn that they need to look out for the node- prefix, and ignore such packages. You are also giving the impression that all these packages are sloppily packaged, which makes one wonder if they are going to have any ongoing maintenance effort available for them (since it seems that too little effort was devoted to the initial packaging), which in turn makes one concerned about whether they are going to be fit for a stable release. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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