The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 2e8f786b33d746e7d42c863d7734fb6f7940e705 Author: Bas Couwenberg <sebas...@xs4all.nl> Date: Sun Jul 21 20:21:58 2013 +0200
Improve package description. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 519cec6..e50f900 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ tinyows (1.1.0-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Update copyright to dep5 format. * Remove extra license files. * Don't install .in files. + * Improve package description. -- Bas Couwenberg <sebas...@xs4all.nl> Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:37:59 +0200 diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index cbf9654..69d1359 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -17,5 +17,20 @@ Package: tinyows Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: apache2, libapache2-mod-fcgid, postgresql-8.4-postgis (>= 1.5.0) -Description: A simple WFS-T server. - TinyOWS is a simple WFS-T server based on PostGIS spatial database. +Description: lightweight and fast WFS-T server + TinyOWS is a lightweight and fast implementation of the OGC WFS-T + specification. Web Feature Service (WFS) allows querying and retrieval + of features. The transactional profile (WFS-T) allows inserting, updating + or deleting such features. + . + From a technical point of view WFS-T is a Web Service API in front + of a spatial database. TinyOWS is deeply tied to PostgreSQL/PostGIS + because of this. + . + TinyOWS implements strictly OGC standards and pass successfully all + WFS OGC CITE tests (and even beta ones). + . + TinyOWS is part of MapServer Suite, but provided as a distinct module + (i.e you could use it in conjunction with MapServer and MapCache, or + as a standalone app). But both MapServer and TinyOWS could use the same + configuration file, if you want to (or native TinyOWS XML config file). -- A simple WFS-T server _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel