Comment 4 for bug 539256

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Josh Bowman (bowmanjj) wrote : Re: [Bug 539256] Re: Eclipse error message and package descriptions are uninformative for users trying to install plugins

On 2010-03-15 16:06, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
> We have a committed a change set to our repository to fix this. You can
> read the new descriptions here[1]; please let us know if you feel they
> are inadequate.
>
> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-
> java/eclipse.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/control
>

This looks pretty good. I will suggest changing the wording from this:

"Please note that a lot of plugins cannot be installed without eclipse-pde."

to something like this:

"Please note that many plugins will fail to install if you don't have
the eclipse-pde package."

Maybe it's just me, but I think the phrase "a lot of plugins" is kind of
ambiguous. For example, I think a person could possibly interpret it to
mean "the eclipse-pde package is required if you want to install more
than X number of plugins". That's what I'm trying to address in my
suggestion, anyway.

Josh