[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#524154: Bug#524154: package descriptions could be clearer after -qt splitoff

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Fri Apr 17 10:13:24 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:18:10AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Also, making references to implementation details in package descriptions is
> frowned upon.  No one cares all that much that it uses Qt 4.  People care that
> it is in fact a graphical user interface.  One might in face complain the
> package should have been named virtualbox-ose-gui or something like that.  The
> package doesn't provide any Qt-related functionality, after all.

There is a reason for this wording namely the existance of another gui package
for virtualbox-ose: vboxgtk. Just naming it -gui doesn't tell the user much
about the differences. I will incorporate the changes you proposed.

Thanks.

Michael
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