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regarding bsdutils: bad package description
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Package: bsdutils
Version: 1:2.13.1.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I've been looking through Essential for the package descriptions
most in need of a review. When I come to bsdutils:
> Description: Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
> This package contains the bare minimum number of BSD utilities needed
> to boot a Debian system. You should probably also install
> bsdmainutils to get the remaining standard BSD utilities.
> .
> Included are: cal, col, colcrt, colrm, column, logger, renice,
> script, scriptreplay, ul, wall
This is factually inaccurate. The utilities cal, col, colcrt,
colrm, column, and ul are in bsdmainutils - in fact as far as I can
tell they already were ten years ago.
The phrasing is also rather poor; its claim that this list is the
"bare minimum number of BSD utilities to boot a Debian system"
(what, _any_ eleven?) is demonstrably untrue, and the "you should
probably" part is pointless advice. After all, this package is
Essential and Recommends bsdmainutils, so users would have to have
taken special action to _avoid_ installing the full set of
utilities. If they change their minds later, there's no "probably"
about it: they're in bsdmainutils.
Please trim it down to:
Package: bsdutils
Description: basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a
Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The
remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils.
(This includes a couple of punctuation fixes for debian-l10n-english
standards compliance.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bsdutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Versions of packages bsdutils recommends:
ii bsdmainutils 6.1.10 collection of more utilities from
-- no debconf information
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru util-linux-2.13.1.1.pristine/debian/control util-linux-2.13.1.1/debian/control
--- util-linux-2.13.1.1.pristine/debian/control 2008-05-20 15:06:17.000000000 +0100
+++ util-linux-2.13.1.1/debian/control 2008-05-20 15:13:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -53,13 +53,10 @@
Section: utils
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Recommends: bsdmainutils
-Description: Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
- This package contains the bare minimum number of BSD utilities needed
- to boot a Debian system. You should probably also install
- bsdmainutils to get the remaining standard BSD utilities.
- .
- Included are: cal, col, colcrt, colrm, column, logger, renice,
- script, scriptreplay, ul, wall
+Description: basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
+ This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a
+ Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The
+ remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils.
Package: fdisk-udeb
Architecture: alpha amd64 arm armeb armel hppa i386 ia64 lpia m32r mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 hurd-i386 sparc s390
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.14~rc3-1
According to the changelog, this was fixed in 2.14~rc3-1.
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