Re: Request for review: xz-utils package description

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again,

One more thought before I send the updated descriptions.

Ben Finney wrote:

> So perhaps the core should be the library:
> 
>     Package: liblzma0
>     Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression library
> 
>     Package: xz-utils
>     Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression library – command-line utilities
>     
>     Package: liblzma-dev
>     Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression library – development files
>     
>     Package: liblzma-doc
>     Description: XZ (and LZMA) compression library – API documentation

I fear that the second description here gives the wrong impression:
just like bzip2 is more than a demo for libbz2, users of the xz-utils
package probably are not thinking of it as a companion to the liblzma
library.  Although the four packages come from the same source, I
think of them as two suites: the XZ compression utilities and the
liblzma compression library.

That is, why not say something like this

	Package: liblzma0
	Description: XZ-format compression library

	Package: liblzma-dev
	Description: XZ-format compression library – development files

	Package: liblzma-doc
	Description: XZ-format compression library – API documentation

but also this?

	Package: xz-utils
	Description: XZ-format compression utilities