[strip-nondeterminism] 02/02: Update package long descriptions to clarify that this tool is a temporary workaround. (Closes: #862029)

[Chris Lamb]

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commit 4ae1b6dc4357a9ca42db38b8f309dfc9150dca11
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 7 19:19:01 2017 +0200

    Update package long descriptions to clarify that this tool is a temporary workaround. (Closes: #862029)
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 debian/control | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2c45a58..6854007 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -26,13 +26,17 @@ Depends:
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${perl:Depends},
 Description: file non-deterministic information stripper — Perl module
- StripNondeterminism is a library for stripping non-deterministic information,
- such as timestamps and file system order, from files. It is used as part of
- the Reproducible Builds project.
+ StripNondeterminism is a library for stripping non-deterministic information
+ such as timestamps and filesystem ordering from various file and archive
+ formats.
  .
  This can be used as a post-processing step to improve the reproducibility of a
  build product, when the build process itself cannot be made deterministic.
  .
+ It is used as part of the Reproducible Builds project, although it should be
+ considered a temmporary workaround which should not be needed in the long
+ term; upstream software should be reproducible even without using such a tool.
+ .
  This package installs the Perl module ‘File::StripNondeterminism’.
 
 Package: strip-nondeterminism
@@ -43,13 +47,17 @@ Depends:
  ${perl:Depends},
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Description: file non-deterministic information stripper — stand-alone tool
- StripNondeterminism is a library for stripping non-deterministic information,
- such as timestamps and file system order, from files. It is used as part of
- the Reproducible Builds project.
+ StripNondeterminism is a library for stripping non-deterministic information
+ such as timestamps and filesystem ordering from various file and archive
+ formats.
  .
  This can be used as a post-processing step to improve the reproducibility of a
  build product, when the build process itself cannot be made deterministic.
  .
+ It is used as part of the Reproducible Builds project, although it should be
+ considered a temmporary workaround which should not be needed in the long
+ term; upstream software should be reproducible even without using such a tool.
+ .
  This package installs the stand-alone ‘strip-nondeterminism’ tool.
 
 Package: dh-strip-nondeterminism
@@ -62,12 +70,16 @@ Depends:
  ${perl:Depends},
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Description: file non-deterministic information stripper — Debhelper add-on
- StripNondeterminism is a library for stripping non-deterministic information,
- such as timestamps and file system order, from files. It is used as part of
- the Reproducible Builds project.
+ StripNondeterminism is a library for stripping non-deterministic information
+ such as timestamps and filesystem ordering from various file and archive
+ formats.
  .
  This can be used as a post-processing step to improve the reproducibility of a
  build product, when the build process itself cannot be made deterministic.
  .
+ It is used as part of the Reproducible Builds project, although it should be
+ considered a temmporary workaround which should not be needed in the long
+ term; upstream software should be reproducible even without using such a tool.
+ .
  This package installs the ‘dh_strip_nondeterminism’ Debhelper command that
  strips nondeterminism as part of a Debian package build process.

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