Debian Bug report logs - #335855
gnome-office: please be more specific in package description

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Laurent Fousse <laurent@komite.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gnome-office: please be more specific in package description

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:58:34 +0200

Package: gnome-office
Version: 64
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

The package description states that :

	GNOME Office consists among other things of a word processor,
	spreadsheet, diagram editor, database admin tool and programs
	for image manipulation, vector drawing, financial accounting
	and project management.

But I don't know which one is the word processor, what I should launch
in order to have a databse admin tool, and so on. So please add the
application name next to its function in the description. Thanks.

Laurent.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-office depends on:
ii  abiword-gnome           2.2.7-3          WYSIWYG word processor based on GT
ii  dia-gnome               0.94.0-7         Diagram editor (GNOME version)
ii  gimp                    2.2.6-1          The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii  gnome-core              64               The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii  gnumeric                1.4.3-4          GNOME spreadsheet application
ii  inkscape                0.41-4.99.sarge0 vector based drawing program
ii  planner                 0.13-0.4         project management application

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Message #12 received at 335855-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>

To: 335855-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gnome-office: please be more specific in package description

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:43:59 +0100

> The package description states that :
> 
> 	GNOME Office consists among other things of a word processor,
> 	spreadsheet, diagram editor, database admin tool and programs
> 	for image manipulation, vector drawing, financial accounting
> 	and project management.
> 
> But I don't know which one is the word processor, what I should launch
> in order to have a databse admin tool, and so on. So please add the
> application name next to its function in the description. Thanks.

I don't think being that specific is necessary. If you don't know which
application does what (and you can't infer it from its name), you can look at
its description.

Furthermore we don't do this for e.g. gnome-core, gnome-accessibility or
gnome-devel, and I don't think that's going to change.

Cheers,
Emilio

Message #22 received at 335855@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>

To: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>

Cc: 335855@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gnome-office: please be more specific in package description

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:37:29 -0500

Le mars 1, 2010 12:43:59 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
> > The package description states that :
> > 
> > 	GNOME Office consists among other things of a word processor,
> > 	spreadsheet, diagram editor, database admin tool and programs
> > 	for image manipulation, vector drawing, financial accounting
> > 	and project management.
> > 
> > But I don't know which one is the word processor, what I should launch
> > in order to have a databse admin tool, and so on. So please add the
> > application name next to its function in the description. Thanks.
> 
> I don't think being that specific is necessary. If you don't know which
> application does what (and you can't infer it from its name), you can look at
> its description.
> 
> Furthermore we don't do this for e.g. gnome-core, gnome-accessibility or
> gnome-devel, and I don't think that's going to change.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emilio
> 
> 

The point is not that I don't understand what abiword is. The point is that the problematic package description does not tell me that gnome-office depends on abiword, as already explained. I have to look at the dependencies for that, while I'm rather tempted to use Google on "GNOME Office suite". The packages you compare with are different, using respectively:
The GNOME Desktop Environment -- essential components
The GNOME desktop environment -- accessibility components
The GNOME Desktop Environment -- development tools 

"The GNOME Desktop Environment" is well-known. Somebody who wouldn't know what it is would easily find it on Google. "The GNOME desktop environment -- accessibility components" does not tell me which accessibility components are provided, but I'm not tempted to search for "The GNOME desktop environment -- accessibility components" on Google, as it is not a proper noun. "GNOME Office suite" currently brings in the first results http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOffice and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Office - none of which talk about the same "GNOME Office suite" the description refers to. Actually, the Wikipedia article even shows that Debian uses the term with a different meaning.

And you're mixed up - what you're quoting doesn't belong to this report.

Reopen.

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