[Glibc-bsd-commits] r2226 - trunk/libbsd/debian

guillem at alioth.debian.org guillem at alioth.debian.org
Sat Jul 12 06:08:59 UTC 2008


Author: guillem
Date: 2008-07-12 06:08:58 +0000 (Sat, 12 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 2226

Modified:
   trunk/libbsd/debian/changelog
   trunk/libbsd/debian/control
Log:
Improve package descrptions

Add list of currently provided functions.
Mention this is a package with functions commonly available on BSD systems.


Modified: trunk/libbsd/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/libbsd/debian/changelog	2008-07-12 06:01:42 UTC (rev 2225)
+++ trunk/libbsd/debian/changelog	2008-07-12 06:08:58 UTC (rev 2226)
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
   * Improve debian/copyright.
     - Add detailed information about licenses and copyright holders.
     - Update upstream download URL.
+  * Improve package descrptions.
+    - Add list of currently provided functions.
+    - Mention this is a package with functions commonly available on BSD
+      systems.
 
  -- Hector Garcia <hector at debian.org>  Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:17:35 +0200
 

Modified: trunk/libbsd/debian/control
===================================================================
--- trunk/libbsd/debian/control	2008-07-12 06:01:42 UTC (rev 2225)
+++ trunk/libbsd/debian/control	2008-07-12 06:08:58 UTC (rev 2226)
@@ -10,16 +10,27 @@
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libbsd0 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: BSD compatibility library - development files
- This library provides some functions available on FreeBSD's libc but not on
- glibc. This devel package also includes some queue macro definitions not 
- present on includes from glibc.
+Description: utility functions from BSD systems - development files
+ This library provides some functions commonly available on BSD systems but
+ not on others like GNU systems.
+ .
+ The currently provided functions are:
+ .
+ arc4random, arc4random_stir, arc4random_addrandom, bsd_getopt,
+ errc, warnc, verrc, vwarnc, fgetln, fgetwln, fmtcheck, heapsort,
+ humanize_number, inet_net_pton, getprogname, setprogname, strlcpy,
+ strlcat, setmode, getmode, vis, strvis, strvisx, unvis, strunvis, strunvisx,
+ MD5Init, MD5Update, MD5Pad, MD5Final, MD5Transform, MD5End, MD5File,
+ MD5FileChunk, MD5Data.
+ .
+ Also included are some queue macro definitions not present on includes
+ from glibc.
 
 Package: libbsd0
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: BSD compatibility library - shared library
- This library provides some functions available on FreeBSD's libc but not on
- glibc.
+Description: utility functions from BSD systems - shared library
+ This library provides some functions commonly available on BSD systems
+ but not on others like GNU systems.
 




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