Index: diction/metadata.xml
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--- diction/metadata.xml	{cset 58c83339-1c9e-48da-a0f1-1acdb48b2d97}
+++ diction/metadata.xml	{local clone}
@@ -11,4 +11,14 @@
 	<name>Seemant Kulleen</name>
 	<description>Proxy maintainer for James</description>
 </maintainer>
+<longdescription>
+GNU diction and style are free implementations of old standard unix commands,
+that are not available on many modern systems, because they have been unbundled.
+Diction prints wordy and commonly misused phrases.  Style analyses surface
+characteristics of a document, e.g. sentence length and various readability
+measures, but unlike the original code, it lacks sentence type, word usage and
+most sentence beginning processing.
+
+Both commands support English and German documents.
+</longdescription>
 </pkgmetadata>