[petsc] 02/02: add more specificity to package descriptions

[Drew Parsons]

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commit ba31c8a1f0cbe0e38dc15d648124e0a6042144c7
Author: Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 19:53:49 2015 +0800

    add more specificity to package descriptions
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 debian/control | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 45b4775..dae0d71 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Description: Static libraries, shared links, header files for PETSc
  the MPI standard for all message-passing communication.  Several sample
  scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the
  features of the PETSc libraries.
+ 
+ This package provides the development files for building applications 
+ using PETSc 3.6.1
 
 Package: petsc-dev
 Architecture: all
@@ -41,6 +44,13 @@ Section: libdevel
 Depends: libpetsc3.6.1-dev, ${misc:Depends}
 Suggests: libpetsc3.6.1-dbg
 Description: Virtual package depending on latest PETSc development package
+ PETSc is the "Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation", a suite
+ of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of
+ scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations.  It employs
+ the MPI standard for all message-passing communication.  Several sample
+ scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the
+ features of the PETSc libraries.
+ 
  This metapackage will always depend on the most recent version of petscX-dev
  (X=version), so if you install it then you will get upgrades automatically.
 
@@ -57,6 +67,8 @@ Description: Shared libraries for version 3.6 of PETSc
  the MPI standard for all message-passing communication.  Several sample
  scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the
  features of the PETSc libraries.
+.
+ This package contains the latest PETSc 3.6 shared library.
 
 Package: libpetsc3.6.1-dbg
 Architecture: linux-any hurd-any
@@ -73,6 +85,12 @@ Description: Static debugging libraries for PETSc
  the MPI standard for all message-passing communication.  Several sample
  scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the
  features of the PETSc libraries.
+.
+ This package provides the development files and debugging libraries for
+ debugging applications using PETSc 3.6.1.
+.
+ Libraries include unstripped symbols, but this package is also built with 
+ internal PETSc debugging activated.
 
 Package: petsc3.6.1-doc
 Architecture: all
@@ -86,3 +104,6 @@ Description: Documentation and examples for PETSc
  the MPI standard for all message-passing communication.  Several sample
  scientific applications, as well as various papers and talks, demonstrate the
  features of the PETSc libraries.
+ 
+ This package contains documentation for developing with PETSc 3.6.1.
+

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