Bug#843143: Please put a short description in the description

Enrico Zini enrico at debian.org
Fri Nov 4 09:59:25 UTC 2016


Source: gnome-flashback
Severity: normal

Hello,

the current short description of gnome-flashback is:

  gnome-flashback - GNOME Flashback application

The policy says "Do not include the package name in the synopsis line" at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions and
there are more hints at
https://wiki.debian.org/WritingDebianPackageDescriptions and
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-desc-basics

Please improve your summary: even after reading the full description I have no
idea what this package really is for.

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)



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