#699365 sapphire: cobwebby package description

Package:
sapphire
Source:
sapphire
Description:
A minimal but configurable X11R6 window manager
Submitter:
Justin B Rye
Date:
2022-07-16 18:24:18 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#699365#5
Date:
2013-01-30 17:48:05 UTC
From:
To:
There's an obvious problem here:

# Description: A minimal but configurable X11R6 window manager
#  Sapphire is a window manager for X11R6. It is fairly minimal in
#  what it provides on screen: one toolbar, the usual window borders
#  and a popup menu from the root window.
#  .
#  It supports themes as X resource files, and the menu is editable.
#  If you install the 'menu' package, you'll get an automatically updated
#  'Debian' submenu of installed programs.

X11R7 was released in 2005.  Just doing s/X11R6/X11R7/ would be wrong,
since this software clearly isn't tied to any one specific X version;
instead I've substituted the more usual expression "X window manager"
in the synopsis and "for X11" in the first line of the extended
description.

There are a couple of other things I would tweak if this text was
being standardised to the debian-l10n-english "house style", but
there's no need for that; apart from the cobwebs it's all useful
information clearly expressed.  The one exception is that (in line
with the recommendations of DevRef 6.2.2) I've removed the superfluous
capitalised definite article from the synopsis.

So that's:

| Description: minimal but configurable X window manager
|  Sapphire is a window manager for X11. It is fairly minimal in
|  what it provides on screen: one toolbar, the usual window borders
|  and a popup menu from the root window.

#699365#10
Date:
2022-07-16 18:20:47 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package sapphire has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1014632

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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