Bug#624618: apt: Maybe time to modernize APT package description

[Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk>]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> "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..:-)

See http://bugs.debian.org/458029 for my own attempt.  I came up with:

 Package: apt
 Description: Debian's advanced package tool
  This package provides command-line utilities for package management,
  including apt-get, used for finding and fetching software upgrades,
  and apt-cache, used for interrogating the package database. It depends
  on dpkg as its back-end for installs, and can be used either directly
  or via high-level interfaces such as aptitude.
  .
  A User's Guide is available in the package apt-doc.

I didn't think to patch the othe descriptions in the same control
file, but there's plenty that needs editing.
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package