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--- Begin Message ---package: njam Version: 1.25-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch The short and long descriptions of njam aren't very nice: The short description starts with the name of the program. Short descriptions shouldn't do that. There is a lintian warning about this, which seems to have been circumvented by using "The program Njam", which looks even worse. Instead it can be full-featured pacman-like game Its features (cross-platform, multiplayer) can be detailed in the long description. For the short description "full-featured" should be enough. If you must mention one feature in the short description, "cross-platform" isn't the best one either, see below. The long description starts with useless (for the user) information: the language and library that were used to write it. This information is useful for some people, but they can get it from the debtags. Before debtags, the long description would have been a proper place for it, but at the end, not at the start. Also, you use 3 spaces before the feature list. I'm not sure if that works right everywhere; 2 spaces is documented to preserve the newlines. Some of the mentioned features are irrelevant for Debian users: * Runs on Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOSX, MorphOS This one, for example. However, due to the networked multiplayer mode this isn't entirely true: it does mean that you can play with friends who run these systems. Still, I'd suggest to write this in a different way, since it isn't a direct feature for the Debian user. * Open Source (GPL Licence) Of course it is. If it wouldn't be free software, it wouldn't be in Debian. One of the great things about Debian IMO is that users don't have to bother reading licenses: if it's in Debian, it's free software. So please just let that be true and don't bother the users with it. They don't want to hear about licenses, they want to just assume it's all fine. The long description also contains a Homepage field, which should be moved to a control field. I suggest for the long description: Njam is a pacman-like game with many features, including networked multiplayer mode. It is available on many platforms. . Features: * Single and multiplayer mode (local or network) * Cooperative and competetive multiplayer modes * Customizable level skins * Integrated level editor * Many different levels * Great music and sound effects Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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--- Begin Message ---Source: njam Source-Version: 1.25-6~exp1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of njam, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Daniel Echeverry <[email protected]> (supplier of updated njam package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:48:08 -0500 Source: njam Binary: njam Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.25-6~exp1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[email protected]> Changed-By: Daniel Echeverry <[email protected]> Description: njam - pacman-like game with multiplayer support Closes: 474716 664343 Changes: njam (1.25-6~exp1) experimental; urgency=low . * QA Upload. * debian/control + Update long description. Closes: #474716 + Set maintainer to Debian QA group + Bump standard versions 3.9.4 + Update to DEP5 copyright format 1.0 + Switch to debhelper 9 + Add ${misc:Depends} * Switch compat level to 9 * debian/njam.1 + Fix some lintian warnings * debian/patches + Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format. Closes: #664343 + add fix_error_gcc.diff * Update watch file. Thanks to Bart Martens * debian/njam.desktop + Erase encoding field * Add clean file + Do not need to be installed the njamicon.ico file * Add njam.install file * Add njam.links file Checksums-Sha1: 57d39990030fbd2e307faa277ac1e198a5c5d772 1782 njam_1.25-6~exp1.dsc 1975c17e83fcc1042d758b25bccb784130bb22ad 1665803 njam_1.25.orig.tar.gz dc08e2aa78cce65411d6a6b92e3c422fff9e481d 8037 njam_1.25-6~exp1.debian.tar.gz ac19ea5ee702fcb002789da89ba732dd8aa7e980 1443140 njam_1.25-6~exp1_amd64.deb Checksums-Sha256: 7c4803b8e5191db7a12607d12ca1062d174362cfbed9c54ed191fcaa93c683cb 1782 njam_1.25-6~exp1.dsc 8ed3eee3f387ce5ecdab7dd528f98cf77f65971510964000f2f1dfbf8b6f3000 1665803 njam_1.25.orig.tar.gz 692ddbf4d2be94d98e6bdbbe363b3144f0330dcbf960f742b3fe9f8408ac1423 8037 njam_1.25-6~exp1.debian.tar.gz 1a1bdecc1bc9cf43d154d7586ef1cf03f5046cdc4f856220e1b03aa08fe7f18f 1443140 njam_1.25-6~exp1_amd64.deb Files: c22bc9c3f9b116d72d0ff9cc91b21a26 1782 games optional njam_1.25-6~exp1.dsc 231fda022d309e1ef4a0d993ca693462 1665803 games optional njam_1.25.orig.tar.gz 234bf4ea9f8bcb380ea5c674e8d7ceeb 8037 games optional njam_1.25-6~exp1.debian.tar.gz de1a180a3455f17625a1519f5e294f27 1443140 games optional njam_1.25-6~exp1_amd64.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQ3zKHAAoJEHtYWzCAfCqHxzcP/R/5N9NNaWjyPn3W9XPf2fw7 T6jRTxL9f5Qwifo7yztIdR1fq49SiYdxYYLaB4j8KJAa+3U99HhQwLQdrNOM+aRy uiAjupRmVGLI19drqLBjp14BMaMOY1iZJ2/2iMNh3O51Dta81joPoslGzIpAcfyX YMvq2h6asR0u6hqUvsbA2zCvPB+11clnXrMInx8Iv8mlZUqBfJM3Y1ZG9NfMHUl9 YWX2JJOAkDnmwctIasa2GukNEgkCfpYEnXSqPx65h6W5oPQGQEyHYiahdfx5GdJl G3xnki/KmOD0nDKA3p4LFOcGU+/eO0qV1Zjgex9aO8uLfrEQh5Z8+ZS0TW3K/xZr 7f7YEez+JOp9dg2PyRz7kVx7p28W+0DnFb8ExdFbmoRtQ5XtoaswdpyFaTfnS0hZ BPpGJswUOY/f9tBBJryxdskO+qyh1EoNEWIMz+L6lZLsGLHrpWGD/X96UzDxy/pb ARJhEXG/OBuHkv1+JDoF8ZlQmIGNb/jjx+r7YJ9XJlVpWrUJg9ofu7h+4WdQchIw L9RUxB7MYpN1PNx0kfDphooEIu0dajMMLPSpsaTTdJHjiQZnJII174/IQsqMk9xr fS0zPeA36CJkVImDFHuRAx/lNlkr/EFIaTc0Ap+xh54uPZL7W45w3QazGB49QX5J Hgq7FvXyoHdzt0I0QugB =5Knv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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