Package: icu-devtools Version: 63.1-4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
The current package description states that it "contains programs used to manipulate data files found in the ICU sources" and that end users would not generally need it. The thing is, at least one of these programs (uconv) is not tied to ICU sources and is actually useful to some end users. Unlike iconv it has support for the Unicode normalization. Currently there's no mention of this in the package description which makes it harder to locate the package even if you already know the name of the binary you need. $ apt-cache search unicode normalization | grep icu libghc-text-icu-dev - bindings to the ICU library libghc-text-icu-doc - bindings to the ICU library; documentation libghc-text-icu-prof - bindings to the ICU library; profiling libraries $ apt-cache search uconv ruby-uconv - Unicode/EUC-JP translation module for Ruby The apt-file partially covers this case (if you're looking for the uconv specifically). $ apt-file search /bin/uconv icu-devtools: /usr/bin/uconv -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages icu-devtools depends on: ii libc6 2.25-3 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-17 ii libicu63 63.1-4 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-17 icu-devtools recommends no packages. icu-devtools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
