Bug#168940: ITP: libemf -- libEMF is a C/C++ library which provides a drawing toolkit based on

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 13-Nov-02, 09:00 (CST), Laurent Mazet <mazet@softndesign.org> wrote: 
> * Package name    : libemf
>   Version         : x.y.z
>   Upstream Author : Name <somebody@some.org>
> * URL             : http://www.some.org/
> * License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)

The point of the template is to actually fill-in the various fields. :-)



>   Description     : libEMF is a C/C++ library which provides a drawing toolkit based on ECMA-234.

Don't repeat the package name in the brief description. Just "A C/C++
library..." is sufficient.

>  libEMF is a C/C++ library which provides a drawing toolkit based on
>  ECMA-234. The general purpose of this library is to create vector
>  graphics files on POSIX systems which can be imported into
>  StarOffice/OpenOffice. The Enhanced MetaFile (EMF) is one of the two
>  color vector graphics format which is "vectorially" understood by
>  SO/OO.

Don't repeat the brief description as the first line of the full
description. All the Debian tools that show the full also show the
brief.

steve
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