r46554 - /packages/healpix/healpix-cxx/trunk/debian/control

[lsinger-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: lsinger-guest
Date: Sun Feb 23 19:10:04 2014
New Revision: 46554

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/?sc=1&rev=46554
Log:
healpix-cxx: fine-tune description

Modified:
    packages/healpix/healpix-cxx/trunk/debian/control

Modified: packages/healpix/healpix-cxx/trunk/debian/control
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/healpix/healpix-cxx/trunk/debian/control?rev=46554&op=diff
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--- packages/healpix/healpix-cxx/trunk/debian/control	(original)
+++ packages/healpix/healpix-cxx/trunk/debian/control	Sun Feb 23 19:10:04 2014
@@ -17,21 +17,25 @@
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libhealpix-cxx0 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: shared library for C++ interface to HEALPix
+Description: HEALPix representation spherical data - C++ development library
  HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization
  of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a
  subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same
- surface area as every other pixel. This package provides the static library
- and header files for the C++ language implementation of HEALPix.
-
+ surface area as every other pixel. It is commonly used to store all-sky
+ astronomical images, most famously maps of the cosmic microwave background.
+ This package provides the static library and headers for the C++ language
+ implementation of HEALPix.
+ 
 Package: libhealpix-cxx0
 Architecture: any
 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: presentation of data for spherical surface
+Description: HEALPix representation spherical data - C++ shared library
  HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization
  of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a
  subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same
- surface area as every other pixel. This package provides the dynamic library
- for the C++ language implementation of HEALPix. It is commonly accessed
- by Python wrappers as shipping in separte packages.
+ surface area as every other pixel. It is commonly used to store all-sky
+ astronomical images, most famously maps of the cosmic microwave background.
+ This package provides the dynamic library for the C++ language implementation
+ of HEALPix. It can be used interactively via Python bindings available in a
+ separate package.