From b463a73a03a50d886edef176fbdb5827e675d64b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Vogt Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:26:46 +0100 Subject: merge updated description from David, many thanks --- debian/control | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b6b8641ec..59c92640a 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -17,48 +17,51 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, debian-archive-keyring, gnupg Replaces: manpages-pl (<< 20060617-3~) Conflicts: python-apt (<< 0.7.93.2~) Suggests: aptitude | synaptic | wajig, dpkg-dev, apt-doc, bzip2, lzma, python-apt -Description: Debian's advanced package tool - APT provides mechanisms for package management tasks like searching, - querying and managing deb packages from one or more package - repoistories. +Description: APT's commandline package manager + This package provides commandline tools for searching and + managing as well as querying information about packages + as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library. . - It supports: - * searching for package information; - * resolving package install requests, finding the appropriate - version in the archives; - * fetching packages along with all their required dependencies; - * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data; - * installing and removing packages on a working 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 + These include: + * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them + from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and + removal of packages together with their dependencies + * apt-cache for querying available information about installed + as well as installable packages * 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 - . - APT is also highly configurable and can be extended to support - additional protocols. Package: libapt-pkg4.10 Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Replaces: apt (<< 0.8.15) Breaks: apt (<< 0.8.15~exp3) -Description: Package search and manipulation library for apt - This package contains the libapt_pkg library that is used by apt. - I exposes functionality for use by higher-level interfaces like - aptitude, synaptic, python-apt and others. +Description: APT's package managment runtime library + This library provides the common functionality for searching and + managing packages as well as information about packages. + Higher-level package managers can depend upon this library. + . + This includes: + * retrieval of information about packages from multiple sources + * retrieval of packages and all dependent packages + needed to satisfy a request either through an internal + solver or by interfacing with an external one + * authenticating the sources and validating the retrieved data + * installation and removal of packages in the system + * providing different transports to retrieve data over cdrom, ftp, + http, rsh as well as an interface to add more transports like + https (apt-transport-https) and debtorrent (apt-transport-debtorrent). Package: libapt-inst1.2 Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Replaces: apt-utils (<< 0.8.15), apt (<< 0.8.15) Breaks: apt (<< 0.8.15~exp3), apt-utils (<< 0.8.15~exp3) -Description: Deb package format query and manipulation library for apt - This package contains the libapt_inst library used by apt-utils to - query deb packages for information. Its used by apt-ftparchive, - python-apt and others. +Description: APT's deb package format runtime library + This library provides methods to query and extract information + from deb packages. This includes the control data and the package + file content. Package: apt-doc Architecture: all @@ -66,9 +69,8 @@ Priority: optional Depends: ${misc:Depends} Section: doc Description: Documentation for APT - This package contains the user guide and offline guide, for the - advanced package tool APT. Both a html and a text version are - included. + This package contains the user guide and offline guide for various + APT tools which are provided in a html and a text-only version. Package: libapt-pkg-dev Architecture: any @@ -96,17 +98,24 @@ Package: apt-utils Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: APT utility programs - This package contains some APT utility programs such as apt-ftparchive, - apt-sortpkgs and apt-extracttemplates. + This package contains some less used commandline utilities related + to package managment with APT. . - apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration - questions before installation. apt-ftparchive is used to create Package - and other index files. apt-sortpkgs is a Package/Source file normalizer. + * apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration + questions before installation. + * apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files + needed to publish an archive of debian packages + * apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer. Package: apt-transport-https Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Priority: optional -Description: APT https transport - This package contains a APT https transport. It makes it possible to - use 'deb https://foo distro main' lines in the sources.list. +Description: https download transport for APT + This package enables the usage of 'deb https://foo distro main' lines + in the /etc/apt/sources.list so that all package managers using the + libapt-pkg library can access metadata and packages available in sources + accessable over https (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). + . + This transports supports server as well as client authenification + with certificates. -- cgit v1.2.3