Bug#408119: ITP: chessdb -- ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X as well as most if not all modern UNIX versions.
On 23-Jan-07, 10:17 (CST), zako <christian.pinedo.zamalloa@gmail.com> wrote:
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> * Package name : chessdb
> Version : David Kirkby <drkirkby@users.sourceforge.net>
> Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's not right.
> * URL : http://chessdb.sourceforge.net
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C, C++, Tcl
> Description : ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used
> on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macs running OS X as well as most
> if not all modern UNIX versions.
Aside from not needing two ITPs (please close or merge 408118), this
"short" description is waaaayyyy too long. Also, don't repeat the
package name in the short description. Since this is a Debian package,
the ability to use it with other OSs is not the most important thing
about it. "Free" goes without saying, since it's in Debian main.
You also need to write (I think) more than "chess database"; my first
impression was that it was a opening book database for other chess
programs. So maybe this would be a better short description:
Description: portable chess game storage and annotation database
(Presumably, that's an accurate description, based on the sourceforge
page. You can probably come up with something less clunky.) More detail
in the long description (reads PGN files, allows annotation, interface
with Crafty for analysis, etc.) You *Don't* need to reproduce the entire
webpage, just a paragraph or so of theh highlights.
Regards,
Steve
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Steve Greenland
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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