Review of description for initial packaging: rgbpaint
Dear linguists,
I am preparing an initial packaging of Rgbpaint, a simplified
painting program, and I would honestly appreciate a review of
my proposed description in the control file. The content suits
my intentions, but a final scrutiny is much wanted.
The package is existent in Ubuntu, but neither is their description
satisfactory, nor have they disected the upstream source to the
extent I found to be necessary. I have a blessing from Debian Edu
to adapt this package for Debian, and my nephews make for a small
but initial audience!
The control file is attached to this message, but is also present
as a Deb-maint at Alioth.
Kind regards,
Mats Erik Andersson, DM
<mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>
Source: rgbpaint
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>
Build-depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), gettext, pkg-config,
libx11-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libpango1.0-dev
Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Homepage: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/rgbpaint.html
Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/rgbpaint/trunk/
Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/rgbpaint/trunk/
Package: rgbpaint
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: simple, pixel based painting program
Rgbpaint is a simplified painting program, derived from its
ancestor Mtpaint by the very same authors. It edits and saves
images of the formats PNG, JPEG, and ICO only. Some additional
formats can be read, though: TIFF, GIF, TGA, PCX, and SVG.
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Rgbpaint has by intention a simplified user interface without
drop down menus. Painting is done using one out of ten brushes,
and the palette is made up of twenty colours. Each of these
colours may be replaced and mixed anew in a colour blender.
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Painting, filling, and area selection are the available actions.
The program can make a screen snapshot immediately when starting.
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Rgbpaint was originally aimed at the OLPC initiative, and it
works well with the Sugar desktop environment. Like its larger
relative, Mtpaint, a tablet is a true enhancement to Rgbpaint,
and as such it is quickly mastered also by younger children,
using true brushwork!
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Rgbpaint needs GTK+2, but the use of GtkPixbuf facilities reduces
explicit dependency on image handling libraries.
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