Package: sysutils
Version: 1.3.8.5.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The only thing out of sysutils that I can remember ever using is
/usr/bin/lsdev, so I was surprised to notice that the package
description fails to mention it.  And now that I'm nitpicking...

> This is a package incorporating various small utilities which are:

An unnecessarily awkward phrase, and one that clearly implies an
exhaustive list, which this isn't.

>  *  procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v17).

If you're going to bother with version-numbers, it has been v18
since long before Woody went stable. 

>  *   memtest - Test system memory for errors (v2.93.1).

This one's fine, though perhaps it could be clearer about the
difference between this and memtest86+.

>  *  bogomips - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2).

Rebooting?!  Was there a time when you couldn't "cat /proc/cpuinfo"?

>  * tofromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files (v1.4).

I only see fromdos and some symlinks.  Was "tofromdos" an old
packagename? 


I suggest the following patch, which (among other things) sorts them
into alphabetical order:

- This is a package incorporating various small utilities which are:
-  *  procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v17).
-  *   memtest - Test system memory for errors (v2.93.1).
-  *  bogomips - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2).
-  * tofromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files (v1.4).
+ This is a package incorporating various small utilities:
+  * bogomips - Shows the current bogomips rating (v1.2).
+  *    lsdev - Displays DMA, IRQ, and I/O-port information (v1.5).
+  *  memtest - Tests system memory for errors from userspace (v2.93.1).
+  * procinfo - Displays system information from /proc (v18).
+  *  fromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files (v1.4).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.hurakan
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages sysutils depends on:
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-4      Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information
-- 
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)


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