[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#678257: Typos in package description, rewording proposal

[Justin B Rye]

[Oops, this didn't go out when I thought it did.  Re-sending:]

Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
>    Description: Pharmaceutical drugs prescriptor and interactions checker

Also: synopses don't need an initial capital letter, and no
dictionaries I can find believe in the word "prescriptor" (though I
suppose it might be jargon known only to the kind of specialists who'd
want this package).

>     The FreeMedForms project is a set of free and open source
>     medical application used to help health professionals

A set of applicationS, plural.

>     in their current practice.

As opposed to their previous practice?  Maybe this should say
something like "day-to-day".

>     It is developed by a international community of medical

s/ a inter/ an inter/

>     doctors and computer workers.
>     .
>     FreeDiams is a pharmaceutical drug prescriptor assistant.

No such word, again.

>     It can be used to creation complex prescription and to manage
>     drugs interactions.

The verb is "to create", and you mean plural "prescriptions".

> 
> For me a project is a group of persons working on a task. So it can't be
> a collection of applications.

Well, I'd probably say it makes sense to talk about a software project
consisting of software... so I'd suggest using the ambiguous word
"provides".

> Debian is free - so free and open source are redundant.
> 
> My proposal:
> 
>    Description: Pharmaceutical drugs prescriptor and interactions checker
>     The FreeMedForms project maintains a set of medical applications
>     used to help health professionals in their current practice.
>     It is developed by an international community of medical doctors
>     and computer specialists.
>     .
>     FreeDiams is a pharmaceutical drug prescriptor assistant.
>     It can be used to create complex prescriptions and to handle
>     drugs interactions.

Or:
     Description: pharmaceutical prescription and interaction manager
      The FreeMedForms project provides a set of medical applications to help
      health professionals in their day-to-day practice. It is developed by an
      international community of medical doctors and computer specialists.
      .
      FreeDiams is a pharmaceutical drug prescription assistant which can be
      used to create complex prescriptions and to handle drug interactions.
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package