can we get better package descriptions for filing bugs

[Brad Bollenbach]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 10:39 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> Hi all!
>   I've got a question/request. In the "Select a Package" dialog that
> comes up when you want to choose a package to file a bug against, is it
> possible to get better descriptions? Right now the description is just
> the name of the package (which is redundant). Even a list of the binary
> packages compiled from the source package or short description for
> binary packages would help.
> 
> I bring this up because there is a scientific source package named
> "boot" in Universe and I've been getting a few bugs filed against it
> from people having problems with the boot process. The boot source
> package creates the r-cran-boot binary package which would indicate to
> the user that it isn't the place to file a bug about the boot process.

Sounds reasonable. I've opened this bug:

<https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/40173>

Brad