Comment 9 for bug 73116

The lack of any package description on the source page is a real problem for me. It's helpful when you're working with a large number of packages (say MOTU Science team with 500+ packages) since you can't remember what all the packages do. I end up running between apt-cache and LP trying to do work which is a bit of a pain. Perhaps if a source produces only a single binary the description from that could be used straight away. If multiple binaries are produced then perhaps the short descriptions with a dropdown area for the full description would work?

Overall the overview page is nice from a publishing perspective, but not really much help when you want to know about the software itself (like Homepage, if it's maintained in VCS, etc.) I realize that some information (maintainer, build-deps, component, section) are release-dependent but I feel like having the latest information from the development release is too useful to have to dig around for all the time.