On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 12:13 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote:
> Package: openhpid
> Version: 2.12.0-1
> Severity: normal
> The short description for openhpid is not very informative and I
> believe also not policy compliant.
>
> Neither gives much of an indication of what OpenHPI is and what the
> daemon does?
I'm probably too close to OpenHPI, so would appreciate some suggestions
from users. I'd certainly like to improve the package in this area.
For background, here's some of the text from README.Debian. Is it best
to add a URL to the short description? What do you suggest? Also, it
would be great if you could provide a pointer to the part of the policy
you're thinking of. Do you mean the policy regarding the description,
or something else about the daemon.
Finally, openhpid is part of a larger set of packages built from the
openhpi source package. How much description redundancy should I add to
each generated binary package, or just refer users to the source package
(or openhpi metapackage).
Thanks for your feedback!
Bryan
------------ From README.Debian ----------------
OpenHPI consists of a number of Debian packages. In order to avoid
duplication, some of the important README (and other) files have been
installed to:
/usr/share/doc/libopenhpi2
Please look in that directory for additional documentation.
OpenHPI comes from http://openhpi.sourceforge.net/. Please visit that
website for further information and documentation.
OpenHPI needs a config file to know how to talk to the hardware on your
computer. The file that has been installed with this version of OpenHPI
is the one supplied by the OpenHPI project, which may not be suitable for
your installation. Please review and modify /etc/openhpi/openhpi.conf
so that it works with your hardware. You will then need to restart the
openhpi daemon:
/etc/init.d/openhpid restart
Additionally, you may need to install some of the OpenHPI plugin modules.
Those currently supplied by the OpenHPI project are:
openhpi-plugin-ilo2-ribcl
openhpi-plugin-ipmi
openhpi-plugin-ipmidirect
openhpi-plugin-oa-soap
openhpi-plugin-snmp-bc
openhpi-plugin-sysfs
Others may become available from other sources.
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