Bug#549457: x11-apps: flawed package description
Package: x11-apps
Version: 7.4+2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The current package description has two problems.
Its first paragraph is a relic of the days when these apps were in
xbase-clients:
> An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via
> the X libraries), and thus with some input and output hardware like a
> graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse).
This explanation of what an X client is became pointless when the
word "client" disappeared from the package name, so I recommend just
throwing out the whole paragraph.
Second, three of the listed apps (bitmap, xcursorgen, and xmore)
have no descriptions. In the case of bitmap, this looks like the
result of an editing error, since the line ends with a comma and
trailing whitespace rather than a semicolon, and since its
associates atobm and bmtoa have fallen off the list entirely.
My patch gives them the following suggested descriptions:
- atobm, bitmap, and bmtoa, tools for manipulating bitmap images;
- xcursorgen, a tool for creating X cursor files from PNGs;
- xmore, a text pager;
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.custom
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 x11-apps depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.3.3-9 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpng12-0 1.2.39-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.5-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii x11-common 1:7.4+4 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
x11-apps recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-apps suggests:
ii mesa-utils 7.5.1-1 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
-- no debconf information
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru x11-apps-7.4+2.pristine/debian/control x11-apps-7.4+2/debian/control
--- x11-apps-7.4+2.pristine/debian/control 2009-07-27 18:20:42.000000000 +0100
+++ x11-apps-7.4+2/debian/control 2009-10-03 14:58:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -48,19 +48,15 @@
xcalc, xclipboard, xclock, xconsole, xcursorgen, xditview, xeyes, xgc,
xload, xlogo, xmag, xman, xmore, xwd, xwud
Description: X applications
- An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via
- the X libraries), and thus with some input and output hardware like a
- graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse).
- .
This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X applications
that ship with the X Window System, including:
- - bitmap,
+ - atobm, bitmap, and bmtoa, tools for manipulating bitmap images;
- oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
- xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email;
- xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory;
- xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections;
- xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
- - xcursorgen;
+ - xcursorgen, a tool for creating X cursor files from PNGs;
- xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
- xedit, a simple text editor for X;
- xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
@@ -69,7 +65,7 @@
- xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo;
- xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen;
- xman, a manual page browser;
- - xmore;
+ - xmore, a text pager;
- xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session;
- xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
- Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical
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