Package: vavoom
Version: 1.33-5
Severity: minor
This is a report of several problems with the descriptions, which
currently read:
Advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife engine
Vavoom is an engine based on sources of Doom, Heretic, Hexen and a
little bit from Quake. Vavoom requires game data to run. Free game
data is available in the freedoom package. Commercial game data can be
packaged using game-data-packager.
Vavoom includes vlaunch: a graphical tool for configuring and
launching vavoom.
First, there is a pseudo paragraph switch after the extended
description's first sentence. But as you can see with the paste from
packages.debian.org above, the newline is not necessarily rendered.
There should be a real change of paragraph.
Second, the first sentence is not really clear. What kind of sources
does it refer to? The source code of the engines of these games? If so,
that information probably doesn't need to be in the first sentence,
which should focus on explaining why one would want vavoom. Clarifying
the first sentence will probably suffice to address the final issue,
i.e. that the descriptions do not say what vavoom is, even though one
can infer that it is a game engine, and those who know Doom or Quake
will figure it's a FPS engine. I find the short description unclear too
- what is an "advanced Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife engine"? I don't think
the short description should name other software (unless the software is
very well known, but what is Strife?).
