Bug#516918: libipc-system-simple-perl: package description could need improvement

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:39:28 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

> #v+
> Description: Perl module to run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics
>  Calling Perl's in-built system() function is easy,
>  determining if it was successful is hard.
>  .
>  IPC::System::Simple takes the hard work out of calling external commands; all
>  of your system() commands will either succeeed (run to completion and return
>  a zero exit value), or die with rich diagnostic messages.
> #v-
> 
>  The long description could do with some improvement, first of all
> "in-built" isn't really an english word TTBOMK, 

Might be en_AU, at least it's taken verbatim from the upstream
author's documentation :)
(Agreed, my en_AT ears feel the same as yours.)

> builtin is the standard
> writing of it. Additionally the additional paragraph in between is a bit
> confusing because the first paragraph doesn't say much about the package
> but should because it's usually the most important part about the
> package.

Right.

>  Hope you consider this comment as helpful as its meant. Thanks. :)

Of course, thanks for your attention to such details!

Cheers,
gregor

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