Bug#220930: ITP: unace -- De-archiver for .ace files
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:04:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:52:53PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Description : De-archiver for .ace files
> >
> > This is clumsy. Please say "extraction utility for .ace archive files"
>
> It's analogous to the descriptions in arj and unzip.
... which says nothing of whether those are any good.
"Archiver for .arj files" is fine, but we don't speak of "de-archivers"
in English. Unarchive is tolerable.
> > or something similar (see descriptions for unarj, zoo etc for ideas).
> These are not in Debian (not in main at least).
Again, irrelevant.
> I don't mind changing it, but you should speak with the maintainers of
> arj and unzip first (just for the sake of consistency).
In the case of package descriptions, I don't think that consistently bad
is better than inconsistent.
Hamish
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