[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#644125: Bug#644125: xenstore-utils has completely inadequate description
Thomas Goirand
thomas at goirand.fr
Tue Oct 11 18:11:52 UTC 2011
On 10/03/2011 11:01 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> Package: xenstore-utils
> Version: 4.0.1-2
>
> all it says is:
>
> "Description: Xenstore utilities for Xen
> This package contains the Xenstore utilities."
>
> Wow, i never would have guessed that a package called xenstore-utils
> might contain Xenstore utilities. I'm glad that's cleared up!
>
> that just leaves a few tiny, niggling questions:
>
> 1. WTF are the Xenstore utilities?
> 2. What are they for?
> 2. How do i know if/when i need them installed?
> 3. Are they for installation on the Dom0 host or the DomU guest?
>
>
>
> The purpose of the Description field in a package is to tell someone,
> particularly someone who has never encountered the package before, what
> the package does. Re-iterating the package name in slightly longer form
> complete fails in this purpose.
>
> it is a description which is completely accurate, yet at the same time
> completely and utterly useless.
>
> if you can't come up with a one or two paragraph summary yourself,
> please at least cut-and-paste some minimally descriptive info from
> the readme, install notes, web page, or whatever other relevant
> documentation or info actually *describes* what the xenstore-utils do.
>
> it doesn't need to be much. just a paragraph or two will do.
>
> craig
Craig,
Because I agree with you, at the end of August, I sent a patch to the
pkg-dev list in the hope of making it better:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xen-devel/2011-August/003531.html
But nobody told me if it was ok to commit, if it would be accepted,
rejected, if I should NMU the change, or whatever.
Please read my proposed change, and voice your opinion (or even better,
modify and enhance my patch).
Thomas
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