[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#679697: ucimf: package description review

[Justin B Rye]

Package: ucimf
Version: 2.3.8-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

The package descriptions for ucimf and its relatives contain a few
English language issues (starting with two in the first word of the
synopsis).
 
> Package: ucimf
[...]
> Description: uicode console input method framework
                ^
A missing letter and a missing shift - synopses don't need initial
uppercase, but in this case you could get away with capitalising every
word, given that it's the expansion of an abbreviation; and besides,
the word "Unicode" is intrinsically capitalised.

>  Provide an input method framework for Linux unicode
>  Framebuffer consle.

Multiple issues:
 * Ungrammatical sentence fragment: s/Provide/Ucimf provides/.
 * Missing definite article: for the Linux [...]
 * Again, s/unicode/Unicode/
 * Contrariwise, Framebuffer is lowercase (and preferably two words).
 * And one last typo: s/consle/console/.

>  .
>  This package contains the application.
> 
> Package: libucimf0
[...]
> Description: library for unicode console input method framework

Make that "Unicode console input method framework - library" (so that
the next one can follow the same scheme and save some space).

>  Provide an input method framework for Linux unicode
>  Framebuffer consle.

Amend as above.

>  .
>  This package contains the runtime library.
> 
> Package: libucimf-dev
[...]
> Description: library for unicode console input method framework - development files

Unnecessarily long; make it "Unicode console input method framework -
development files".

>  Provide an input method framework for Linux unicode
>  Framebuffer consle.

Amend as above.

>  .
>  This package contains the developing header files.

s/developing/development/.

So my revised version is:

| Package: ucimf
| [...]
| Description: Unicode console input method framework
|  Ucimf provides an input method framework for the Linux Unicode frame
|  buffer console.
|  .
|  This package contains the application.
| 
| Package: libucimf0
| [...]
| Description: Unicode console input method framework - library
|  Ucimf provides an input method framework for the Linux Unicode frame
|  buffer console.
|  .
|  This package contains the runtime library.
| 
| Package: libucimf-dev
| [...]
| Description: Unicode console input method framework - development files
|  Ucimf provides an input method framework for the Linux Unicode frame
|  buffer console.
|  .
|  This package contains the development header files.

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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
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