Bug#707078: minor typos in package descriptions

2013-05-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Justin B Rye wrote: > There are a couple more than you noticed. Oops, and I sent mine too soon, too. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package diff -ru kdeartwork-4.8.4.pristine/debian/cont

Bug#707078: minor typos in package descriptions

2013-05-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Erik Esterer wrote: > There are a few minor typos in the package desription part of the control > file. > A patch (against the control file in experimental) to fix these typos is > included. There are a couple more than you noticed. > --- a/debian/control 2013-05-07 11:45:47.806452323 +0200 > +

Bug#679230: karbon: package description review

2012-06-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: karbon Version: 2.4.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I'm glad to see the package descriptions for the KOffice^WCalligra suite are being maintained; but there are still a few typos and other language problems, especially in the description for karbon. > Package: calligra [...] > Descripti

Re: [RFR] templates://phonon/{phonon-backend-null.templates}

2011-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Sune Vuorela wrote: > Christian PERRIER wrote: >> Quoting David Prévot (dav...@altern.org): >>> Please avoid “Qt 4” in short description of user-oriented packages, as >>> advised in the Developer's Reference, and prefer something like >>> “multimedia framework for KDE”. >> >> I agree that not havi

Re: [RFR] templates://phonon/{phonon-backend-null.templates}

2011-03-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Modestas Vainius wrote: >>> + [...] The following Phonon >>> + backend packages seem to be available for this system at the moment: >> >> As long as we can trust the detection (what does this depend on?) > > phonon-backends provide 'phonon-backend' virtual package. Yes, and I don't see any non-fr

Re: [RFR] templates://phonon/{phonon-backend-null.templates}

2011-03-22 Thread Justin B Rye
(My patch goes along with the request to revert to Type: note.) Christian PERRIER wrote: > +_Description: Missing backend for Phonon The spelling "backend" is developerese - the standard English spelling is "back end" (and it's not that dictionaries are lagging behind normal usage; see e.g. "http

Bug#614947: konqueror-nsplugins: cobwebby package description

2011-02-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: konqueror-nsplugins Version: 4:4.4.5-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I've been running through the package lists looking for outdated descriptions that no longer fulfill the requirement (in Debian Policy 3.4) that package descriptions should convey to readers why they might want to have

Re: [RFR] templates://kde4libs/{kdelibs5.templates}

2009-10-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Sune Vuorela wrote: > Full NACK. You are changing the message. We are not moving from .kde to > .kde4. Oops, I missed that. Revised patch with "from ~/.kde4 to ~/.kde" attached. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about t

Re: [RFR] templates://kde4libs/{kdelibs5.templates}

2009-10-17 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: > Your review should be sent as an answer to this mail. Luckily enough I didn't see anything worth complaining about in the control file, once I'd got my head round the fact that kdelibs5 provides libraries for KDE 4. > _Description: Stop possible unsafe upgrade of KDE4

Bug#319808: kmail: misuses man section "sh"

2005-07-24 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: kmail Severity: minor These four man pages: /usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_antivir.1.gz /usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_clamav.1.gz /usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_fprot.1.gz /usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_sav.1.gz ...are apparently filed under /sh/ because they're documenting shell scripts.