Allegedly, on or about 09 February 2017, Kevin Fenzi sent:
Unfortunately, it's kind of subjective what a good summary /
description would be. Perhaps the guideline could say "Describe what
the package is as if to someone who had no idea what it was" ?
But in some cases there's packages like libraries where the audience
for the package already should be someone who knows pretty well what
it does.
I'd suggest that *all* packages need clear descriptions, and all updates
need adequate explanations.
When I do a yum update, I do try to research the packages it wants to
update, first. Some of which you just can't find any useful information
about them.
Likewise, I might do a yum search on a topic, and get a plethora of
oddball results that I can't work out whether they'd be useful, or
unrelated.
Anyhow, I'd suggest:
1) file a bug on nitrokey politely saying that the description and
summary are not useful and ask them to redo them.
I'd be filing umpteen of the damn things, If I had the perseverance to
go through bugzilla (it's not quick or easy). Hence the comment about
it ought to be be more automatic. And as I said, I just picked that one
as a random example.
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