[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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