On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Julien Cristau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:23 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote: >> 2009/1/30 Julien Cristau <[email protected]>: >> >> > how many of those do we need? why this one in particular? >> >> I've been looking in Debian for a command line tool that takes >> pictures from a USB video capture device that doesn't support MJPEG, >> and couldn't find one (besides mplayer - but in a really hackish way); >> fswebcam does (it accepts input in a number of formats). > [snip list of fswebcam features] > > Thanks, that replies to my question :) > Maybe that this kind of things ("why is this not already addressed by an > existing package?") should be part of most ITPs... >
Most complete ITPs just copy a draft of the long description verbatim. The Developer's Reference recommends that the second paragraph of a long description describe why a tool is preferable to others. [0] It would certainly be nice if people expand on this even more when they give ITPs (For instance, when I submitted an ITP for another Scheme interpreter I described why it was preferred.) Daniel [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-desc -- Daniel Moerner <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
