r70738 - in /trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian: changelog control

[rra at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: rra
Date: Sun Mar  6 23:12:58 2011
New Revision: 70738

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/?sc=1&rev=70738
Log:
* Expand the long description to note that these modules are older and
  predate native Unicode support, and the character mapping table is
  somewhat out of date.  Recommend using native facilities instead where
  possible.

Modified:
    trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/changelog
    trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/control

Modified: trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/changelog?rev=70738&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/changelog (original)
+++ trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/changelog Sun Mar  6 23:12:58 2011
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
   * Rewrite debian/copyright in DEP-5 format.
   * Add the Unicode Character Database license, since Unicode::CharMap is
     derived from it.
+  * Expand the long description to note that these modules are older and
+    predate native Unicode support, and the character mapping table is
+    somewhat out of date.  Recommend using native facilities instead where
+    possible.
 
  -- gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>  Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:48:46 +0100
 

Modified: trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/control
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/control?rev=70738&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/control (original)
+++ trunk/libunicode-string-perl/debian/control Sun Mar  6 23:12:58 2011
@@ -14,7 +14,15 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends},
  libmime-base64-perl
-Description: Perl modules for Unicode strings
- This package contains the Unicode::String and Unicode::CharName modules that 
- enable the representation and manipulation of Unicode character strings in 
- Perl 5.
+Description: Older Perl modules for Unicode string manipulation
+ This package provides Unicode::String, which manipulates strings of
+ characters in various Unicode representations, and Unicode::CharName,
+ which maps Unicode characters to official character names.
+ .
+ These modules predate native Unicode support inside Perl.  Normally, the
+ integrated Perl Unicode support and modules such as Encode should be used
+ instead of these modules.  They are provided primarily for their
+ additional utility functions and to support other Perl code with
+ dependencies on these modules.  Be aware that Unicode::CharName only
+ includes Unicode characters up to Unicode 4.1 and the character name
+ tables included with Perl are more complete.