Bug#627880: Typo in long description (Lainux/Linux)
David Paleino wrote:
> Package: flashybrid
> Severity: minor
> Version: 0.16
>
> Hello Kirill,
> please read http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting to learn how to correctly
> report a bug in a package in Debian.
Well, if it's going to be reported, let's get all the rest of the
problems in this description patched too. Meanwhile, does anybody
know if the package still works with the new /run layout in Sid?
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 12:50:26 +0600, Kirill Aleksandrovich wrote:
>> [..]
He didn't mention the short description:
Description: automates use of a flash disk as the root filesystem
That's a non-DevRef-compliant verb phrase, and not really accurate.
Just installing this package doesn't automatically convert my system
to run out of /ram - that takes some manual work and a reboot!
Description: setup tools for using a flash disk as the root file system
>> Flashybrid is a system to help in setting up and managing hybrid
>> flash/disk/ram based Debian systems which can run most of the time using
"Ram based" must be like using a dead badger. s/ram /RAM-/
It's not clear what the "most of the time" here is intended to mean,
but the most obvious interpretation is that it modifies "can" - that
is, sometimes they randomly fail to run. I'd suggest just removing
the phrase. Oh, and I'll shuffle some commas.
>> only a small flash disk for their root filesystem and do a useful, but
>> limited task (such as being a router, or a PDA, or a rescue system on a
s/do a useful, but limited task (/perform limited but useful tasks /
>> USB keydrive). The flash can be as small as 32 mb, though 64 to 256 mb
>> is more comfortable.
Millibits? s/mb/MB/
>> To use this package, you will need a 2.4 or greater version of the
>> Lainux kernel, with tmpfs support built in.
>>
>> Lainux /= Linux.
Furthermore, "2.4 or greater" = "any version of Linux supported by
Debian for a very long time", so this whole paragraph is pointless...
except that these days the package should probably be tagged as
"Architecture: linux-any" rather than "all", but since I'm not certain
about that I'll leave it out of this patch.
The 404ing "Homepage" is clear enough, though - I'll remove that line.
--
JBR
Not a developer or even a flashybrid user
diff -ru flashybrid-0.16.pristine/debian/control flashybrid-0.16/debian/control
--- flashybrid-0.16.pristine/debian/control 2010-10-10 22:10:14.000000000 +0100
+++ flashybrid-0.16/debian/control 2011-05-25 13:13:09.769623054 +0100
@@ -4,18 +4,14 @@
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), po-debconf
Standards-Version: 3.7.2
-Homepage: http://www.xorcom.com/rapid/
Package: flashybrid
Architecture: all
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, rsync
-Description: automates use of a flash disk as the root filesystem
+Description: setup tools for using a flash disk as the root file system
Flashybrid is a system to help in setting up and managing hybrid
- flash/disk/ram based Debian systems which can run most of the time
- using only a small flash disk for their root filesystem and do a useful,
- but limited task (such as being a router, or a PDA, or a rescue system
- on a USB keydrive). The flash can be as small as 32 mb, though 64 to 256
- mb is more comfortable.
- .
- To use this package, you will need a 2.4 or greater version of the Lainux
- kernel, with tmpfs support built in.
+ flash/disk/RAM-based Debian systems, which can run using only a small
+ flash disk for their root file system and perform limited but useful
+ tasks such as being a router, or a PDA, or a rescue system on a USB
+ keydrive. The flash can be as small as 32 MB, though 64 to 256 MB is
+ more comfortable.
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