Package: gnuplot Version: 5.0.6+dfsg1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
You may want to consider rewriting the description text of the gnuplot metapackage. It seems misleading to me that it includes the following This package is for transition and to install a full-featured gnuplot supporting the X11-output. The phrase "This package is for transition" has been in the description of the gnuplot metapackage unaltered since gnuplot 4.0.0, when gnuplot-nox and gnuplot-x11 were introduced. I think this leads users to believe that the package may go away at some point and that they should not depend directly on it. Since this metapackage still exists 13 years later, it seems that this is not really a transitional package at all. It might help to clarify the intent by rewording this last paragraph of the description. Thanks for your work. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnuplot depends on: ii gnuplot-qt [gnuplot-nox] 5.0.6+dfsg1-1 gnuplot recommends no packages. Versions of packages gnuplot suggests: pn gnuplot-doc <none> -- no debconf information
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