Package titles and descriptions are poor

Bug #1134347 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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mesa (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

For the binary packages libegl-mesa, libegl1-mesa-dbg, libegl1-mesa-dev, libegl1-mesa-drivers, and libegl1-mesa-drivers-dbg:

1. The package titles (Synopses) don't even mention Mesa. They all start with "Free implementation of the EGL API --", which is very wordy when they are listed together. <https://twitter.com/dylanmccall/status/306619770525061120>

I suggest that they be changed to "Mesa OpenGL Graphics", "Mesa OpenGL Graphics — debugging symbols", "Mesa OpenGL Graphics — hardware drivers", and so on.

2. The package descriptions all seem to contradict themselves. They all have a first paragraph that begins "This package contains the EGL native platform graphics interface library", but then have a second paragraph that begins "This package contains..." followed by their actual contents. If the packages *together* make up the library, then the first sentence would be better as "...contains part of of...", but better still would be a sentence describing what Mesa actually is.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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