Bug#1053543: libdw-dev: Poor package description
Package: libdw-dev
Version: 0.189-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.baryluk@gmail.com
libdw-dev:
Description: libdw1 development libraries and header files
This is really poor choice of a description. It does not provide any
actual information. Like what libdw1 is?
Usually Description will be more informative, similar to how non-dev
packages are described.
Maybe:
library that provides access to the DWARF debug information (development files)
which would align with libdw1 package description.
However, ultimately this would be better (and shorter):
Library to access DWARF debugging information (development files)
and for libdw1:
Library to access DWARF debugging information
(with possible (shared libraries) suffix, but preferably without)
Similarliy for libelf-dev:
Description: libelf1 development libraries and header files
=>
Description: Library to read and write ELF files (developement files)
Cheers,
Witold
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE, TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libdw-dev depends on:
ii libdw1 0.189-4
ii libelf-dev 0.189-4
ii liblzma-dev 5.4.4-0.1
ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.13.dfsg-3
libdw-dev recommends no packages.
libdw-dev suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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