Re: r1455 - projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:22:30AM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:23:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Debian Pure Blends Subversion Commit wrote:
> >
> >> Author: domibel-guest
> >> Date: Tue Mar 24 03:10:37 2009
> >> New Revision: 1455
> >> URL: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/blends?rev=1455&view=rev
> >> ...
> >> Suggests: mrisim
> >> Homepage: http://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/tgz/
> >> License: BSD-like
> >> -Pkg-Description: mrisim is a simple MRI simulation program which produces MINC
> >> +Pkg-Description: an MRI simulator
> >
> > Could you please use the full name instead of the abreviation MRI. Assume
> > the package might be uploaded and a randim user tries
> >
> > apt-cache search simulator
> >
> > and wonders WTF MRI might be.
>
> Although package descriptions should be targeted on the _potential_
> user. So whoever is wondering what MRI is, is not a potential user ;-)
I disagree. I think any user should at least have an idea that this
package is targetted at some specific field and is probably not for
them. It is probably hard to always convey this in the short
description, though.
Michael
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