Re: Request for review: xz-utils package description
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Package: liblzma0
> Description: XZ (and LZMA) format compression library
> XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
> compression format, which gives memory-hungry but powerful
> compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
My mental parser trips on that “… gives memory-hungry but powerful
compression …”, looking for the object (“gives compression to what?”). I
would suggest:
… which implements memory-hungry but powerful compression …
> .
> The native format of liblzma is XZ; it also supports raw
> (headerless) streams and the older LZMA format used by lzma, but
> not 7-Zip’s related format (see the package p7zip).
That whole reference to “7-Zip's related format” should be
parenthetical:
… used by lzma. (For 7-Zip's related format, instead use the ‘p7zip’
package.)
> For more information on the XZ format, see the xz-utils package.
Rather than referring to a *package* for information, either refer to
the *documentation* (somewhere), or preferably drop this altogether.
I think the synopses can be improved slightly. Since XZ is a
“compression format”, this could work:
Package: liblzma0
Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression format – runtime library
Package: xz-utils
Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression format – command-line utilities
Package: liblzma-dev
Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression format – development files
Package: liblzma-doc
Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression format – API documentation
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Ben Finney
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