Bug#624618: apt: Maybe time to modernize APT package description
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.14.1
Severity: normal
While updating the French translation of the apt package description,
I just had a good laugh..:-)
"This is Debian's next generation front-end"
It was next generation back in the 90's. I think that now APT can just
be a front-end to dpkg. :-)
Maybe a good opportunity to entirely review apt's debian/control file?
And indeed a good illustration of why we should never use "next
generation" or "new fancy foobar" in package descriptions..:-)
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# Sid
deb ftp://kheops/pub/mirror/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://kheops/pub/mirror/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://kheops/pub/mirror/debian lenny main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-5 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.2 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.100.3+b1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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