# get right of the maybe retitle 624618 time to modernize APT package description merge 624618 458029 thanks
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:17, Justin B Rye <j...@edlug.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:10, Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: >> While updating the French translation of the apt package description, >> I just had a good laugh..:-) :) Just to get us started: Last "change" to this text was on 1998-12-22. [Justin B Rye's proposal] > 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. The package apt provides more than just apt-get and apt-cache - even through these are arguable the most prominent. That it depends on dpkg already says the Depends: and wouldn't be really a useful information for me as is i guess and while it indeed provides a high-level interface i wouldn't pick one out of the endless possibilities as the preferences for one or the other varies between users and even between upgrade-instructions especially as a decent front-end can use the Suggests line, which mentions a few, a lot better than free form text to show other options. More in-deep, apt-get isn't usually used to find packages, but to manage them which is distinct from just "fetching software upgrades" which could describe unattended-upgrades. It does even a bit more with subcommands like source, but that is possibly to much of detail… And kind of more personal: APT is not shouting but 'apt' is a normal word and a package name while 'APT' is a name for our large family of tools ranging from apt-get to software-center. (A lot of) backronyms are available - yours is one of more popular. Anyway, i don't feel like including APT or one of the expansions in the description as it would have no meaning. So, while i know quite good what i don't want to read in it, i have no real idea what should be in so the best i came up with so far is the following what isn't exactly at my liking either… (so, we can have now another laugh together - especially the folks from d-10n-english as i always thought i should ask for review there and not for suggestions of complete descriptions, but okay…) apt: package manager interface This package provides the common ground for searching and managing packages as well as information about packages other package managers can be depend upon. . This includes: - retrieval of information about packages - retrieval of packages and all dependent packages needed to satisfy a request - authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data - installation and removal of packages in the system . It also provides various terminal-based tools on its own: - apt-get for managing packages and retrieval of information - apt-cache for querying available information - apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages - apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings - apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys Best regards David Kalnischkies, who runs away to hide from the obvious tl;dr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
