Package description is very out of date

this should probably be done before feisty. More suggestions are welcome on how to better phrase description

(Removed those points that resulted from my unfamiliarity with Debian package description formatting. Reported bug 88803 about displaying them better in Launchpad.)

What about something simple but effective, like (mainly from the Mozilla site, bit marketing-lingo....):

"The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable. With Firefox 2, new powerful features have been added, among others: Web feeds, in line spell checking, integrated search capabilities, identity theft protection, and advanced tabbed browsing."

I have taken the liberty to modify the control and changelog files myself. This was mostly an exercise to make me familiar with the packaging system.

I changed the short description and long description in 'control' as follows:

short description

The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla

long description

 Firefox 2 is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable.
 New powerful features have been added, among others:
 Web feeds, in line spell checking, integrated search capabilities,
 identity theft protection, and advanced tabbed browsing.

The 'changelog' was changed with the following addition (using dch -i):

firefox (2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low

  * package description updated (Closes: LP#88232)

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:08:04+0100

I then rebuild the source package and checked that the executable build is ok.

I attach the diff to this comment.

Alexander i assigned this to you for now. If you accept the changes and want me to do it ill be glad to, just asign to me if needed.

Cesare thank you for your work on it.

i don't think that things like Award-Winning and "faster, more securye..." belong to an objective package description. If you have other suggestions feel free to drop them in this bug.

Right. No marketing lingo then ......

short description

Firefox 2, the Mozilla web-browser.

long description

 Firefox 2 is a fast, secure, and customizable web-browser.
 Beside the standard web-browsing features it provides web feeds,
 in line spell checking, integrated search capabilities, identity theft
 protection, built-in popup blocker and advanced tabbed browsing.

sounds better ... will consider for feisty. Thanks.

Im happy with the description in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/88232/comments/7

I would change
short description

Firefox 2, the Mozilla web-browser.
 to something less general since it implies that its the "only" mozilla browser

I will see what i can come up with sometime today and let Alexander know. assigning to me so i dont forget it

"This is a build of a random development version (aka trunk). It is ment for preview
and not for production use."

This shouldn't be in the description, but neither should any advertisements like the above.

It looks like this last bit was copied by mistake from firefox-trunk. Alexander?

Alkexander im guessing you forgot to use bug number in changelog? This bug is fixed see the following.

" Description: safe and easy web browser from Mozilla
 Firefox delivers safe, easy web browsing. A familiar user interface,
 enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft,
 and integrated search let you get the most out of the web.
 .
 Install this firefox package too, if you want to be automatically upgraded to
 new major firefox versions in the future. "

Thats from apt-cache show firefox-3.0
if this is still seen in firefox 2 it will not be fixed since support is unning out on it and this is not an important bug for firefox 2. closed bug.