plea for better sdesc lines

[Harold L Hunt II]

Lets see, GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, WindowMaker, ddd, fvwm, lesstif, 
libsmi (was that me?), nedit, openbox, transfig, xfig, xfig-lib, xgraph 
(me???), and xterm.  About 14 of 21.

Wow, looks like I'm the number-one offender.  ;)

Harold

Brian Dessent wrote:
> This is a request to all package maintainers to please check your
> setup.hints for bogus 'sdesc' lines.  As you know, this is the text that
> is displayed to the user when using setup.  It should not begin with the
> name of the package, since setup displays it as "$package: $sdesc".  It
> should also be more descriptive than just the name of the package,
> because "foo: Foo" is almost useless to the user.  Surely you can
> describe your package with a short phrase or sentence.
> 
> I wrote a small script that tests for these things as well as packages
> that reference anything in ZZZRemovedPackages in their Requires.  The
> output is below:
> 
> GraphicsMagick: sdesc contains only name of package
> ImageMagick: sdesc contains only name of package
> WindowMaker: sdesc contains only name of package
> XmHTML: sdesc begins with name of package
> ddd: sdesc contains only name of package
> fvwm: sdesc contains only name of package
> lesstif: sdesc contains only name of package
> libsmi: sdesc contains only name of package
> man: sdesc begins with name of package
> nedit: sdesc contains only name of package
> openbox: sdesc contains only name of package
> opengl: sdesc begins with name of package
> postgresql: sdesc begins with name of package
> shutdown: sdesc begins with name of package
> tetex-x11: references removed package in 'requires'
> transfig: sdesc contains only name of package
> x2x: sdesc contains only name of package
> xfig: sdesc begins with name of package
> xfig-lib: sdesc begins with name of package
> xgraph: sdesc contains only name of package
> xterm: sdesc begins with name of package
> 
> Brian
>