Source: python-fontfeatures
Version: 1.8.0+ds-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi,

The long descriptions have some problems, transposed and missing
words. These seem to come directly from the upstream README.md file.
The attached patch fixes the long descriptions, but doesn't touch the
upstream README.md file.

>From ba5516241e6df14bbef1635f66177052ad2b101f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Teemu Hukkanen <tjhuk...@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:43:28 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix grammar in long descriptions

---
 debian/control | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7c00b35..9373c0a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ Suggests:
  python-fontfeatures-doc,
 Description: Manipulate OpenType font features (Python 3)
  OpenType fonts are programmed using features, which are normally authored in
- Adobe's feature file format. This like source code to a computer program: it's
- a user-friendly, but computer-unfriendly, way to represent the features.
+ Adobe's feature file format. This is like source code to a computer program:
+ it's a user-friendly, but computer-unfriendly, way to represent the features.
  .
  Inside a font, the features are compiled in an efficient internal format. This
  is like the binary of a computer program: computers can use it, but they can't
- do else anything with it, and people can't read it.
+ do anything else with it, and people can't read it.
  .
  The purpose of this library is to provide a middle ground for representing
  features in a machine-manipulable format, kind of like the abstract syntax tree
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ Depends:
  ${misc:Depends},
 Description: Manipulate OpenType font features (common documentation)
  OpenType fonts are programmed using features, which are normally authored in
- Adobe's feature file format. This like source code to a computer program: it's
- a user-friendly, but computer-unfriendly, way to represent the features.
+ Adobe's feature file format. This is like source code to a computer program:
+ it's a user-friendly, but computer-unfriendly, way to represent the features.
  .
  Inside a font, the features are compiled in an efficient internal format. This
  is like the binary of a computer program: computers can use it, but they can't
- do else anything with it, and people can't read it.
+ do anything else with it, and people can't read it.
  .
  The purpose of this library is to provide a middle ground for representing
  features in a machine-manipulable format, kind of like the abstract syntax tree
-- 
2.50.0

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