Bug#691512: Change language in package description to avoid non-free software references

Grant H. sirgrant at member.fsf.org
Fri Oct 26 16:39:09 UTC 2012


Package: earcandy
Version: 0.9+bzr12-2
Severity: wishlist
User: trisquel at trisquel.info
Usertags: libreplanet, trisquel

The current description of earcandy states[1] (also viewable via
apt-cache show earcandy):

"Features include: fade out music/video players on Skype call, [...]"

I believe we should alter the language of this package description to
something such as

"Features include: fade out music/video players on VOIP call, [...]"

for the following reasons:

1) Skype is non-free software and the description is very specific in
mentioning that program specifically.
2) The program earcandy should work just as well for any VOIP program
besides skype.
3) Skype is not even available in the Debian repositories at all.  So it
is not like that "feature" would be relevant to most debian users anyways.

Thank you.

References:
[1]http://packages.debian.org/sid/earcandy



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