Hello Steve, Thanks for your hints. Since this is my first debian package I'm glad if someone gives me some hints about the right way to do the packaging. On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:52:58PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 25-Nov-02, 08:09 (CST), Silke Reimer <silke@intevation.de> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-25 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > * Package name : thuban > > Version : 0.1.3 > > Upstream Author : Thuban Projekt Team <thuban@intevation.de> > > * URL : http://thuban.intevation.org/ > > * License : GPL > > Description : Thuban is an interactive geographic data viewer > > written in Python. > > No need to repeat the name in the short description, just "an > interactive geographic data viewer" is sufficient. That it is written in > python is irrelevant to the description. (I can always find out, if I > care, by looking at the Depends.) This is already changed, since lintian already told me about that :-) > > > Main features are its cross-plattform GUI, extensability and > > flexibility for deriving individual GIS applications. > > > > Thuban is implemented with wxPython which allows its > > GUI to blend in with desktop on different platforms. > > "Platform" only has one 't'. > > I'd argue that the description you've written is aimed a lot more at > developers than users. As a user, what I'd mostly care about is what > kind of geographic data formats it's capable of displaying, and what > different ways it can display that data. OK, I'll change the description according to your suggestions. Silke > > Steve > > -- > Steve Greenland > > The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating > system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the > world. -- seen on the net > -- Silke Reimer Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/
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