Bug#705550: PTS: provide more accessible package description
Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if the PTS would make binary packages descriptions
available more easily. I have grown really familiar with the
interface, but I remember the first times I encountered it - it was a
real WTF. Having a broad description of the binary packages available
there would improve the display a lot.
As things stand, to understand what a package is, you need to
understand intricates of Debian packaging, specifically the strong
distinction between source and binary packages, something that took a
long time for me to grasp properly (in fact, I almost made this bug
report just asking for the package description on top before
remembering that was not possible ;).
I can think of a few ideas:
1. display the synopsis of the description in the binary package listing
2. display the full description of all binary packages somewhere on the page
3. make that description available on a single click (right now, you
need to click through the source package listing on packages.d.o
to get to the binary package description)
I see the PTS page as a great "homepage" for the package, much better
than what you find on packages.d.o, as there is more information, but
it's clearly lacking in basic information. And I feel it's wrong to
link to the packages.d.o pages since those are
distribution-specific...
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_CA.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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