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Bug#701604: marked as done (gkermit: cobwebby package description)

Your message dated Fri, 15 Oct 2021 23:04:13 +0000
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and subject line Bug#701604: fixed in gkermit 2.00-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #701604,
regarding gkermit: cobwebby package description
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: gkermit
Version: 1.0-9
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The package description for gkermit needs some routine maintenance.

> Description: A serial and network communications package

This synopsis is a bit longwinded and confusing.
 * Why does it waste time telling me gkermit is a package?  If it
	wasn't a package it wouldn't have a  package description.
 * DevRef also recommends dropping the leading indefinite article
	(compare ckermit!)
 * More importantly, it's not precisely clear what it's trying to
	say.  It's a network communications package *and* it's a
	serial?  No, it must be saying it's a package for
	communication of both network and serial varieties - right?
	But that doesn't quite make sense either: kermit is a network
	protocol supporting *only* serial connections.
 * Of course these days "network communications" gives rather a false
	impression anyway; it would be clearer if (like the man page)
	it said something about "file transfer".

I would suggest using just:

 gkermit - GNU Kermit file transfer program

(Assuming the man page is right to expand G-Kermit that way; I don't
see anything about it in the upstream docs.)

>  G-Kermit is a GPL'd kermit package. [...]

Style guides tend to recommend against that use of apostrophe, and
"package" is redundant.  Also, now that C-Kermit is BSD-licensed
there's no reason to make such a big deal about the freeness of
G-Kermit.

>  [...]                               It offers medium-independent terminal
>  session and file transfer. [...]

There's a word missing here to make this a grammatical sentence -
maybe a final "facilities".

>  [...]                      The non-free package ckermit adds connection
>  establishment, character-set translation and scripting features.

No: ckermit is in main, now.  So what remaining reason is there for
installing gkermit?  This package description offers no hints; compare
Debian Policy 3.4:
# The description should describe the package (the program) to a user
# (system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have
# enough information to decide whether they want to install it.

(A "should", so a "minor" rather than "wishlist" bug.)

Here's a replacement text stolen directly from an RPM version:

  G-Kermit is a utility for file transfer using the Kermit protocol,
  supporting text and binary transfers on 7-bit and 8-bit connections.
  It is most useful as a remote endpoint; for a more fully-featured Kermit
  program, use the ckermit package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gkermit depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-38

gkermit recommends no packages.

gkermit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)

diff -ru gkermit-1.0.pristine/debian/control gkermit-1.0/debian/control
--- gkermit-1.0.pristine/debian/control	2013-02-24 23:01:02.000000000 +0000
+++ gkermit-1.0/debian/control	2013-02-25 00:31:59.138397191 +0000
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 Package: gkermit
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: A serial and network communications package
- G-Kermit is a GPL'd kermit package. It offers medium-independent terminal
- session and file transfer. The non-free package ckermit adds connection
- establishment, character-set translation and scripting features.
+Description: GNU Kermit file transfer program
+ G-Kermit is a utility for file transfer using the Kermit protocol,
+ supporting text and binary transfers on 7-bit and 8-bit connections.
+ It is most useful as a remote endpoint; for a more fully-featured Kermit
+ program, use the ckermit package.

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Source: gkermit
Source-Version: 2.00-1
Done: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gkermit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 701604@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated gkermit package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:18:14 +0200
Source: gkermit
Architecture: source
Version: 2.00-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 701604 732938 836483 909129
Changes:
 gkermit (2.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Justin B Rye ]
   * Rephrase cobwebby package description (Closes: #701604, #732938)
 .
   [ Helmut Grohne ]
   * Fix FTCBFS: (Closes: #909129)
     + Let dh_auto_build pass cross tools to make.
     + Build the gwart tool for the build architecture.
 .
   [ Bastian Germann ]
   * Change to new homepage
   * New upstream version 2.00
   * Rebase the patches
   * Adopt the package (Closes: #836483)
   * Make the package build with buildflags
   * Raise debhelper-compat version to v13
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