[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#687296: Bad formatting of package description

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

Package: src:boost1.49
Version: libboost-chrono1.50.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Debian Boost Team,

I'm afraid that the formatting of the description for libboost-chrono1.49.0
(1) is not what you intended (2).

Enumerations are displayed verbatim (3) and have to be intended by at least
one space. For your convenience I copied a reformatted version into this 
mail.
It is valid for libboost-chrono1.50-dev as well.


Description: C++ representation of time duration, time point, and clocks
  This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
  .
  The Boost.Chrono library provides:
  .
   * A means to represent time durations: managed by the generic duration
     class.Examples of time durations include days, minutes, seconds and
     nanoseconds, which can be represented with a fixed number of clock
     ticks per unit. All of these units of time duration are united with
     a generic interface by the duration facility.
   * A type for representing points in time: time_point. A time_point
     represents an epoch plus or minus a duration. The library leaves
     epochs unspecified. A time_point is associated with a clock.
   * Several clocks, some of which may not be available on a particular
     platform: system_clock, steady_clock and high_resolution_clock. A
     clock is a pairing of a time_point and duration, and a function
     which returns a time_point representing now.
  .
  To make the timing facilities more generally useful, Boost.Chrono
  provides a number of clocks that are thin wrappers around the
  operating system's time APIs, thereby allowing the extraction of wall
  clock time, user CPU time, system CPU time spent by the process:
  .
   * process_real_cpu_clock, captures wall clock CPU time spent by the
     current process.
   * process_user_cpu_clock, captures user-CPU time spent by the current
     process.
   * process_system_cpu_clock, captures system-CPU time spent by the
     current process.
   * a tuple-like class process_cpu_clock, that captures real, user-CPU,
     and system-CPU process times together.
   * a thread_clock thread steady clock giving the time spent by the
     current thread (when supported by a platform).
  .
  Lastly, Boost.Chrono includes typeof registration for duration and
  time_point to permit using emulated auto with C++03 compilers.


Cheers,
    Martin


1: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=89426
2: http://packages.debian.org/sid/libboost-chrono1.49
3: http://packages.debian.org

# Source: boost1.49
# Package(s): libboost-chrono1.49.0