Package: rabbitvcs Version: 0.13.1-1 Severity: normal According to Policy ยง3.4:
The description should describe the package (the program) to a user (system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have enough information to decide whether they want to install it. This description should not just be copied verbatim from the program's documentation. Each of the four rabbitcvs-* packages that are new today contain the following as the first paragraph of their descriptions: RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. There are extensions for Nautilus, Thunar and GEdit, and a simple command-line interface. Notice that the phrase is "the version control systems you use". Only on the -core package is it stated that it only supports Subversion. Instead of using hyperbole, perhaps you could specify in each package description that "RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools writtten to provide simple and straightforward access to Subversion." Currently, the description is not very useful because it does not help me as an administrator to know whether RabbitVCS is something I want to install at the moment. What it may do in the future is unknowable and not useful to imply in the package description. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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