Christian Perrier wrote: > "This is Debian's next generation front-end" > > It was next generation back in the 90's. I think that now APT can just > be a front-end to dpkg. :-) > > Maybe a good opportunity to entirely review apt's debian/control file? > > And indeed a good illustration of why we should never use "next > generation" or "new fancy foobar" in package descriptions..:-)
See http://bugs.debian.org/458029 for my own attempt. I came up with: Package: apt Description: Debian's advanced package tool This package provides command-line utilities for package management, including apt-get, used for finding and fetching software upgrades, and apt-cache, used for interrogating the package database. It depends on dpkg as its back-end for installs, and can be used either directly or via high-level interfaces such as aptitude. . A User's Guide is available in the package apt-doc. I didn't think to patch the othe descriptions in the same control file, but there's plenty that needs editing. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
