Bug#382195: Offer of Assistance
* Dominique Dumont <dominique.dumont@hp.com> [2007-02-02 09:41]:
> The description should explain a little bit what is MTP.
>
> Description: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) library
>
> A library for communicating with MTP aware devices. MTP (Media
> Transfer Protocol) is necessary to comunicate with some USB portable
> devices like mp3 players, video players or digital camera.
> .
> While some portable device will use USB mass storage protocol or PTP
> (picture transfer protocol), some device can only communicate with
> MTP. [ is this the place to add a wikipedia link?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol ]
> .
> Homepage: http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> Note:
> - I did not cut and paste wikipedia text to avoid GNU FDL licence
> problem
> - the second part of the description may be better suited to a README
> or man page. Your choice.
Thanks for your suggestion. I am using the text above with minor changes.
Your contribution is acknowledged in debian/changelog (see version 0.1.3-2
of the packages in the usual repository [1]). I repeated the same
description for all packages (libmtp5, libmtp-dev, libmtp-doc, and
mtp-tools) with a paragraph "This package contains [...]" specific to each
package.
I think that the Wikipedia link is a good idea, although it may not be a
common practice in Debian. Let us see how the other developers will react.
The package seems to be in a good shape. I will upload it to unstable soon.
Thanks to everybody who contributed.
--
Rafael
[1] http://people.debian.org/~rafael/libmtp/
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