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Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium



Ben Finney wrote:
> That synopsis you've written still is not a noun phrase :-)
> 
> The synopsis should be a noun phrase saying what the package *is*. A
> package does not *do* anything; you're not describing a program,
> you're describing a package. See the Developer's Reference §6.2.2.
> 
> Consider: The synopsis for ‘asciiquarium’ should be a good answer to
> the question “What does the package ‘asciiquarium’ install?”.
> 
> The synopsis text should work correctly in a sentence of the form “The
> package ‘asciiquarium’ installs {a,an,the} foo bar baz.”

Oh. :-)

"simulation of an aquarium using ASCII art"

 - Niklas

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