# Deb package description

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022>\
**Category:** The Lab\
**Created:** [August 7, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022 "2014-08-07T05:58:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![LazyCat-rus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022/1 "2014-08-07T05:58:41Z")

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I am working on Debian packaging and this is almost done.  
I am not good writer, please help me with package long description.  
I need descriptions for these packages:  
cataclysm-dda(console version)  
cataclysm-dda-tiles(SDL version)  
cataclysm-common(shared data files, translations)  
cataclysm-gfx( tiles and fonts)

Example from Dungeon Crawl package:

`Description: Dungeon Crawl, a text-based roguelike game
 Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of games like Rogue, Hack, and
 Moria. Your objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and
 retrieve the Orb of Zot, which is guarded by many horrible and hideous
 creatures.
 .
 This is the console version, for tiles, use crawl-tiles instead.
 .
 This is the Stone Soup version of Dungeon Crawl.`  
Or i can push scripts without description and someone change it on git.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022/2 "2014-08-07T07:04:17Z")

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Thank you so much for working on packaging, I’m really excited about this.

The main description, probably repeated on each package:

```auto
Description: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a text-based zombie survival game.
 Cataclysm is a grim game set in a grim world where for all intents and purposes
 hell has assaulted earth and established a beachhead with intent to occupy.
 You stand alone, afraid, likely alive by coincidence alone, in a situation which
 imminently threatens not only your personal survival but the survival of humanity
 and our earth as we know it. Beset on all sides by shambling, shrieking,
 pus-dripping horrors straight out of the nightmares of Humanity's collective
 unconscious, you make your way through this desolation that used to be a world.
```

Blurbs for each package:  
cataclysm-dda(console version)

```auto
 This is the console version, for tiles, use cataclysm-dda-tiles instead.
```

cataclysm-dda-tiles(SDL version)

```auto
 This is the SDL version, with tile-based graphics and sound support.
 For the console version use cataclysm-dda.
```

cataclysm-common(shared data files, translations)

```auto
Shared data files and translations for the game.
```

cataclysm-gfx( tiles and fonts)

```auto
Tilesets and fonts for the game.
```

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**Author:** ![LazyCat-rus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022/3 "2014-08-07T09:53:45Z")

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Thank you.

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**Author:** ![macrosblackd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@macrosblackd](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/macrosblackd)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022/4 "2014-08-07T13:35:50Z")

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[quote=“Kevin Granade, post:2, topic:7022”]`
Description: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a text-based zombie survival game.
 Cataclysm is a grim game set in a grim world where for all intents and purposes
 hell has assaulted earth and established a beachhead with intent to occupy.
 You stand alone, afraid, likely alive by coincidence alone, in a situation which
 imminently threatens not only your personal survival but the survival of humanity
 and our earth as we know it. Beset on all sides by shambling, shrieking,
 pus-dripping horrors straight out of the nightmares of Humanity's collective
 unconscious, you make your way through this desolation that used to be a world.
`[/quote]

You may want to include in that first line about it being a rogue-like. Something like:

```auto
Description: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a text-based zombie survival rogue-like.
```

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/deb-package-description/7022/5 "2014-08-07T18:41:47Z")

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That’s intentional, it is not in my opinion a rogue like.