Bug#429691: texlive-extra-utils: Please add script or binary names to package description

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Gregor Jasny <gjasny@web.de> wrote:

> Today I've needed the epstopdf script to convert an eps file into a pdf
> one. So I did a apt-cache searh epstopdf but got no results.
>
> It would be nice if you could add the binary or shellscript names to
> the package description so that the package shows up when doing a
> search.

- apt-file exists

- The descriptions are generated automatically, tweaking them by hand
  would be too much work at the moment

- There are 30 executable in tl-extra-utils, it doesn't make much sense
  to put such a large list in the long description.  

I don't think we will fix this - frankly I don't even think there is a
bug.  By the way, a2ping which does a similar job is in
texlive-base-bin. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)