On 30/07/2014 09:31, Axel Dörfler wrote: >> On July 29, 2014 at 11:04 PM Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: >> I guess you are right. It seems so unfortunate that one can't rely on >> common sense. Like, uhm, 'description' is where you *describe* the >> package. No, we have to explicitely say "describe" means to "tell what >> it is good for". > > Maybe we should open a Trac ticket with problematic packages? > There are also a number of packages that cannot be installed at all, while > we're > at it. I fixed some of them... Sometimes you can still install them with pkgman which accepts the provides terms like devel:foo when foo_devel is missing btw. François.