Bug#504432: openyahtzee: Please improve package description

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl alexander at schmehl.info
Tue Nov 4 09:26:20 UTC 2008


Hi!

Jens Seidel schrieb:
>> I think the package description of your package "openyahtzee" could be
>> improved.
>>     
>
> Maybe it's also useful to mention other names of this game. I know at
> least (maybe the following names are not known outside Germany):
> "Knubbel" and "Pasch" (let's not forget that nobody knows how to spell Yahtzee
> and apt-cache search will not output it in this case).
>   
... and "Kniffel".
Playing advocatus diaboli:  Are any of these terms protected with
trademark law?

> And mention also (just in case one doesn't like openyahtzee):
> "Another implementation called gtali can be found in the gnome-games package."
>   
Good idea, especially since gtali (Tali? Another name for Kniffel /
Knubbel / Yahtzee / Whatever?)
seems to offer more features than openyahtzee (e.g. multi player games,
special colour
coded variants, etc.)


Best regards,
  Alexander

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