[Pkg-ace-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Improve some descriptions, WIP towards fixing #599549

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Wed Apr 27 23:16:33 UTC 2011


diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index dedbf56..c0823f8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -484,8 +484,8 @@ Package: tao-idl
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libtao-2.0.2 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: TAO IDL to C++ compiler
- This package provides a Interface Definition Language (IDL) to C++
- compiler.
+ The TAO Interface Definition Language to C++ compiler, which takes IDL files 
+ as the input and outputs C++ headers and source for applications that use CORBA.
  .
  Use tao_idl to generate stubs and skeletons to call or implement
  CORBA distributed objects in C++.
@@ -494,10 +494,11 @@ Package: tao-ifr
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libtao-2.0.2 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: TAO interface repository
- CORBA-aware programs can contact an interface repository to get
- objects interfaces at run-time. Then they can use the Dynamic
- Invocation Interface (DII) mechanism to invoke requests on those
- objects.
+ The Interface Repository provides run-time information about IDL interfaces. 
+ Using this information, it is possible for a program to encounter an object 
+ whose interface was not known when the program was compiled, yet, be able 
+ to determine what operations are valid on the object and invoke requests using
+ the DII. 
  .
  This package includes the following programs:
   * IFR_Service: interface repository server
@@ -518,7 +519,9 @@ Package: tao-ft
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: TAO fault tolerant services
- TAO supports Fault Tolerance for CORBA Objects.
+ TAO implementation of the CORBA Fault Tolerance specification services 
+ to monitor replicated objects and report faults such as a crashed replica, 
+ a crashed host, etc
  .
  This package includes three FT CORBA infrastructure components:
   * Fault_Detector that monitors a process or a host


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