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Bug#423243: bad package description and man pages



Package: mklibs-copy
Version: 0.1.20
Severity: normal

Basically, there's not enough docs to differentiate this package from
mklibs. Problems include:

Description: Shared library reduction script
 mklibs-copy produces a minimal set of shared libraries that contain
 only the libs which are required by a particular set of executables.

Description: Shared library reduction script
 mklibs produces cut-down shared libraries that contain only the
 routines required by a particular set of executables.  This is
 useful when building closed systems where disk space is at a premium,
 such as the Debian installer.

It's impossible to tell from these descriptions why mklibs-copy is a separate
package or how it differs from mklibs or why you'd want to install it instead
of mklibs.

mklibs-copy(1):

       mklibs-small - make a minimal set of libraries
              ^^^^^
	      copy

The remainder of the man page is again identical to mklibs(1), so it's
difficult to chose between the two commands.

mklibs-readelf(1);

       mklibs - prints informations about ELF shared objects and executables
       ^^^^^^                     ^
       mklibs-readelf             "information" is not pluralised with an "s"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mklibs-copy depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-5      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.1.2-5  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.1.2-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  python2.4-minimal             2.4.4-4    A minimal subset of the Python lan

mklibs-copy recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
see shy jo

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