Package: emacs23-common-non-dfsg Version: 23.2+1-1 Severity: normal Hi,
The name and description of this package does not describe the package content in any useful sense. The typical user does not care why the documentation was separated into a non-free package -- and has already enabled the non-free repos before they can even see the package name and description so they already know they may be getting non-free content. The user needs to know why they want to install the package: because it contains documentation. Most other packages (e.g. GNU tar) have package names that end in '-doc' (tar-doc) and a description that says it contains documentation (documentation for the tar package). Contrast this with the emacs documentation: emacs23-common-non-dfsg GNU Emacs shared, architecture independent, non-DFSG. Unless you already know that GNU docs are non-DFSG there'd be no way to guess that the package contained documentation when looking at a list of, say, emacs packages, as you would when searching for emacs related documentation. Additional digging to display the long description would be necessary. The emacs documentation package should follow the common tar-package-like name and short desription conventions so that the emacs documentation is easy to find. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages emacs23-common-non-dfsg depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in emacs23-common-non-dfsg recommends no packages. emacs23-common-non-dfsg suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
