RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

[Michal Hlavinka]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> The packaging guidelines have a single sentence on package summaries:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Summary_and_description
>
> "The summary should be a short and concise description of the package"
>
> Broken packages are a problem as PackageKit shows the summary first (in
> bold) in preference to the package name. This is by design.
>
> Quite a lot of packages have summary text that is overly verbose, and
> this makes the GUI and output from pkcon look rubbish.
>
> For instance, I've filed
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472365 where the oggconvert
> package has a summary of:
>
> "A simple GNOME application that converts media files to Free formats"
>
> First, we don't need to say it's an application, not that it's GNOME
> specific. Surely something like this would be better:
>
> "Simple media converter"
> or
> "Simple conversion to free media formats"
> or
> "Simple media converter using free formats"
>
> The guidelines also don't say if it should be Title Case or if the
> summary should include the application name. If we come to some
> guidelines (or working practices) on this email thread, I'll update the
> wiki page with more details.
>
> It would also be a good idea to have a few "shining examples" for people
> to copy when creating new packages. When we've done that, I'll start
> filing bugs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard.
Guidelines? Maybe, but...

If PackageKit has some troubles with displaying long summaries, you 
should fill bug against PackageKit not against every package with long 
summary

Usually, if I need something, I use yum search keyword and choose what I 
will install thx summary, so I prefer useful and descriptive summary 
against a few words

btw... oggconvert :
A simple GNOME application that converts media files to Free formats

lets see PackageKit :
System daemon that is a DBUS abstraction layer for package management

its even longer... :)