Bug#701604: gkermit: cobwebby package description
Package: gkermit
Version: 1.0-10
Followup-For: Bug #701604
This bug should probably be merged with 732938.
> The package description for gkermit needs some routine maintenance.
This is gradually rising from the level of "routine", but not enough
to change the severity quite yet.
>> [...] The non-free package ckermit adds connection
>> establishment, character-set translation and scripting features.
ckermit no longer even exists in stable/testing/unstable, so there's
no point comparing the two in this package description; my patch needs
a rewrite.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- control.pristine 2019-07-12 14:40:37.618636024 +0100
+++ control 2019-07-12 14:44:24.596388439 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
Package: gkermit
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: A serial and network communications package
- G-Kermit is a GPL'd kermit package. It offers medium-independent terminal
- session and file transfer. The non-free package ckermit adds connection
- establishment, character-set translation and scripting features.
+Description: GNU Kermit file transfer program
+ G-Kermit can serve as an endpoint for the Kermit protocol, supporting
+ text and binary file transfers on 7- and 8-bit serial connections.
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