Howdy all, If your Intention To Package a work for Debian is not accompanied by an appropriate description of the package, I argue you do not yet know what the package is well enough to file that ITP.
A lot of the recent Intent To Package reports for Node.js pacakge have come with *terrible* package descriptions. They are usually far too short, and they seem to be copied from the NPM metadata without explaining it for a Debian audience. When I ask about some of these[0], the responses in some cases reveal that the author of the ITP expected that no-one should be reading it, and certainly that the description was not important. Is someone teaching newcomers to just automatically file ITP bug reports, without writing a proper package description? If so, *please* stop doing that, it teaches unfriendly habits from the start and it makes the ITP almost useless. -- \ “In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In | `\ [the USA], capitalism triumphed over democracy.” —Fran Lebowitz | _o__) | Ben Finney