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

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

well, some want more, some want less. Some want science.

For a quick reader, the writing should be fine. Now it
is there. IIRC I found the text somewhere in upstream's
descriptions and wanted to keep things intact.
  I have no time to think of anything shorter
... paraquoting Goethe here.

Sorry, too many far more interesting things to do and
already leaving too many also more interesting things
undone.

Steffen


On 04/11/2011 11:53 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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