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Bug#465369: ITP: golearn -- Debian educational browser



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clone 465369 -1
reassign -1 goplay
retitle -1 goplay: Please avoid "Debian" in short description
severity -1 minor
thanks

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:01:58AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (dr@jones.dk):
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
>> 
>> * Package name    : golearn
>>   Version         : 0.2
>>   Upstream Author : Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org> & Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>
>> * URL             : http://packages.debian.org/goplay
>> * License         : GPL-2+
>>   Programming Lang: C++
>>   Description     : Debian educational browser
>
> I'm not sure whether this is really descriptive of what the program
>does.
>
>"educational packages search tool using debtags" would maybe better fit as the
>software browses across the archive to search for packages
>(right?). Of course it browses an archive (mroe precisely what's
>listed in sources.list) of Debian packages but indeed not necessarily
>*the* Debian archive.

Thanks. That makes good sense to me (as most if not all postings I have 
ever read from you!).

I am all in favor of promoting software reuse - even beyond Debian.



>That will probably bring the debate about "branding" here (explicitely
>mention Debian) but I would at least support moving the mention of
>Debian to the long description.

At least it probably applies to its origin package: GoPlay!

I've now cloned this bugreport. What do you say, Enrico and Miriam?


  - Jonas

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