From 70a678db414910b61698441daf85c1ff950c42d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:38:02 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify xzdec package description and NEWS entry Use more concise language to make it a little clearer what the package is for. --- debian/control | 16 +++++++++------- debian/xz-utils.NEWS | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index c34a32ef..7e9a21cc 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -58,18 +58,20 @@ Description: XZ-format compression utilities - tiny decompressors compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression. . - This package provides the xzdec and lzmadec utilities, which, like - xzcat and lzcat, write the decompressed version of a compressed file - to standard output. The binaries are very small, so they can be - easily stored on small media with some compressed files, and they are - linked statically against liblzma so they can be used on machines - without a compatible version of liblzma installed. However, they - have: + This package provides the xzdec and lzmadec utilities, which write + the decompressed version of a compressed file to standard output. The + binaries are very small, so they can be easily stored on small media + with some compressed files, and they are linked statically against + liblzma so they can be used on machines without a compatible version + of liblzma installed. However, they have: . * no compression support; * no support for writing to a file other than standard output; * no translated messages; * been optimized for size rather than speed. + . + For a full-featured xzcat command without these limitations, use + the xz-utils package instead. Package: liblzma-dev Section: libdevel diff --git a/debian/xz-utils.NEWS b/debian/xz-utils.NEWS index 40acac4d..6eac958f 100644 --- a/debian/xz-utils.NEWS +++ b/debian/xz-utils.NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ xz-utils (4.999.9beta+20100212-2) unstable; urgency=low The tiny xzdec and lzmadec decompressors have been moved to the new - xzdec package. One can use “xz --decompress --stdout” (abbreviated as - “xzcat”) to replace them where space is not a premium. + xzdec package. One can use xzcat (which is an abbreviation for + “xz --decompress --stdout”) to replace them where space is not a + premium. - -- Jonathan Nieder Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:09:25 -0600 + -- Jonathan Nieder Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:24:10 -0600 xz-utils (4.999.9beta+20100117-1) unstable; urgency=low -- 2.11.4.GIT