[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#986357: Please improve package description

peter green plugwash at p10link.net
Sat Feb 25 03:58:34 GMT 2023


> At the time you wrote this, i think the sq package description was
> pretty similar to what it is today:

It looks like the description we have today was written when sq was
first packaged, but wasn't actually incorporated into the package
until later because of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993633

Version 0.25.0-1 simply had

>  Description: Command-line frontends for Sequoia
>   This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate
>   "sequoia-sq":
>    - sq

As far as the current description goes, I think it's generally not
too bad but I think there are some minor improvements that could be
made.

* It would be nice if we could get rid of the last couple of lines
   (which are generated by debcargo) somehow since they are largely
   redundant. Not sure if this is possible with current debcargo.
* I feel it lacks a bit in "big picture", I *think* sqv is the main
   command line tool for the sequoia project. If that is the case
   it would be nice to say so expliciltly and upfront. Also since
   people will be comparing it with gpg it might be an idea to point
   out explicitly whether things like web of trust support are
   included.
* I'm not sure a list of subcommands belongs in a package
   description or if the description would be better sticking
   to describing functionality.



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