Bug#671036: libc6-pic: outdated package description
Package: libc6-pic
Version: 2.13-31
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Package descriptions for normal libraries that are pulled in
automatically by install- or build-time dependencies aren't usually
worth reviewing, but libc6-pic (and its variants) is a case where
people should be able to find it when they need it, which bumps the
Severity into the visible range.
# Description: Embedded GNU C Library: PIC archive library
# Contains an archive library (ar file) composed of individual shared objects.
# This is used for creating a library which is a smaller subset of the
# standard libc shared library. The reduced library is used on the Debian
# boot floppies. If you are not making your own set of Debian boot floppies
# using the `boot-floppies' package, you probably don't need this package.
Given that boot-floppies hasn't existed since Potato or thereabouts,
this should probably be updated to mention the twentyfirst-century use
case, assuming there is one. Maybe, stealing from libstdc++6-4.X-pic:
Description: Embedded GNU C Library: PIC archive library
Contains an archive library (ar file) composed of individual shared objects.
This is used for creating a library which is a smaller subset of the
standard libc shared library. The reduced library may be useful for custom
installation media and in embedded systems.
(No, I'm not going to ask for an expansion of PIC; it wouldn't make
things any more intelligible to the uninitiated anyway.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libc6-pic depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-31
libc6-pic recommends no packages.
libc6-pic suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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