Package description not suitable for end-users
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
Ubuntu Intrepid alpha 3
1. Open Add/Remove Applications.
2. From the "Show" menu, choose "All Open Source applications".
3. Choose the "Internet" category.
4. Scroll through the list to find "Empathy Instant Messenger".
5. Read the description.
What you see:
Empathy Instant Messenger
High-level library and user-interface for Telepathy
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded [sic] into any GNOME application.
This packet contains the empathy IM application and account manager.
What you should see: A description that actually helps end users decide whether they want to install the program. If this description uses the words "consists of", "desktop integration", "embeded" (or "embedded"), "GNOME", "Gossip", "high-level", "libempathy", "library", "main goal", "Nokia's Mission Control", "packet", "rich", "Telepathy", "UI", "user-interface", or "widgets", you're doing it wrong.
A useful description might mention which types of account you can use with Empathy, and any interesting features it has.
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- empathy package description is near-useless to end users + Package description not suitable for end-users |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Steps to fix this:
1. draft a useful description here
2. submit a patch to Debian
3. sync once it's fixed in Debian