[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#682802: Package description issues

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

Package: src:circos
Version: 0.61-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-english at lists.debian.org

Dear Debian Med Packaging Team,

I believe that the package description (1) is not what you intended. There
is an extra space at the beginning of the fifth line of the long description
that breaks the formatting (2). And I'm afraid there is a missing word in
the last sentence of the long description.


    Description: Package for visualizing data and information
     Circos visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos
     ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions.
     Circos is ideal for creating publication-quality infographics
     and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered
      data and pleasant symmetries. You have fine control each element
     in the figure to tailor its focus points and detail to your audience.


"high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered data and pleasant symmetries"
sounds like marketing speech to me. Though I'm not a native speaker it
sounds a little bit strange as well.


The second package built from the same source (3) has a description with
some typos:


    Description: Fonts used by default in Circos
     Circos visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos
     ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions.
     .
     This package contains a set of font usedby default with Circos.


The short description just refers to the package name, and hides the
the information from (1). However, the first sentence is the same in (1)
and (3). It would reduce the translators' workload to work on common
boilerplate.

Obviously the second paragraph should be:

  This package contains a set of fonts used by default with Circos.


These are my suggestions for (1) and (3):


Description: package for visualizing data and information
  Circos visualizes data in a circular layout — ideal for exploring
  relationships between objects or positions and creating
  publication-quality graphs with densely packeged information. You
  have fine control over each element in the figure to tailor its
  focus points and detail to your audience.


Description: package for visualizing data and information - standard fonts
  Circos visualizes data in a circular layout — this makes Circos
  ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions.
  Circos is ideal for creating publication-quality infographics
  and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered
   data and pleasant symmetries. You have fine control each element
  in the figure to tailor its focus points and detail to your audience.
  .
  This package contains a set of fonts used by default with Circos.


Perhaps somebody would like to comment on (4) as well?


Kind regards,
    Martin

1: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=85836
2: http://packages.debian.org/sid/circos
3: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=85883
4: http://packages.debian.org/sid/circos-tools