[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#622295: r-other-mott-happy: Too long package description

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Bubulle,

thanks for your sanity check on the descriptions.  As somebody who
belongs to the packaging team but also has no idea what all this text is
explaining I definitely agree to your opinion - but I can not fix this
myself (for the same reason you have trouble creating a patch).

Steffen, could you (or someone who is using this package to your
knowledge) please work out a shorter description of maximum two
paragraphs with no more than 10 lines if possible.  Everything else
belongs to README.Debian or something similar.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:53:40PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: r-other-mott-happy
> Severity: normal
> 
> The description of this package is long. I was about to write
> "insanely" long but I can't use such strong word with a fellow DD..:-)
> 
> Still, we stumbled over this description in the DDTP and I have to
> mentioned that it will never be completed if what is currently a full
> scientific paper about....I have no idea what...:-)
> 
> I really doubt that such a long description is really helpful to our
> users. Could it be shortened to something just describing what the
> package is doing...and leave developments to whatever README file you
> think would be appropriate?
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> 
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