[pkg-boinc-devel] Bug#359332: boinc-client: Description improvement

[Steffen Moeller]

Dear Martin, Frank et al.,

I attached a diff -u to the control files which also includes the change of my email address in favor of my official Debian address. Frank, you might like to copy some of the ideas expressed in the attachment.

> [...] 

> So what the heck is a BOINC core client?
It is distributed computing for volunteers, mostly for rather esoteric (SETI)
or real scientific (search for pulsars or HIV protease inhibitors), see
boinc.berkeley.edu. These folks collected some 500000 contributors, doing a daily
100 years of CPU time for even for single project.

> Please describe the package and don't simply repeat the name of the package.
One could describe it much longer, thank your for indicating the recursion to us. In case that you have some idle time to spare, please consider to join in. Actually, the package may be something for Debian Weekly News. Should we come up with something?

Herzliche Gruesse

Steffen

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--- control.orig	2006-03-28 00:03:40.000000000 +0200
+++ control	2006-03-28 00:14:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian BOINC Maintainers <pkg-boinc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
-Uploaders: Steffen Moeller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de>, Frank S. Thomas <frank at thomas-alfeld.de>, Christoph Martin <christoph.martin at uni-mainz.de>, Greg Norris <adric at debian.org>
+Uploaders: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de>, Frank S. Thomas <frank at thomas-alfeld.de>, Christoph Martin <christoph.martin at uni-mainz.de>, Greg Norris <adric at debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.6.2
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpatch, zlib1g-dev, libssl-dev, libcurl3-openssl-dev (>= 7.13.2), freeglut3-dev, libsm-dev, libice-dev, libxmu-dev, libxi-dev, libx11-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libwxgtk2.6-dev, automake1.9 (>= 1.9.3), autoconf (>= 2.59), docbook2x, docbook-xml, dh-buildinfo
 
@@ -11,16 +11,15 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
 Suggests: boinc-manager | kboincspy
-Description: BOINC core client
- This package contains the BOINC core client program, that is required to
- participate in any project that uses BOINC.
- .
- The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a
- software platform for distributed computing. A central server
- distributes work units and collects results via this client.
- When attaching a local machine to a project, this client will also 
- dynamically download the projects application's program to be then
- wrapped by the BOINC core client.
+Description: core client of volunteer computing system
+ This package contains the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
+ Computing (BOINC) core client program.
+ .
+ A central server distributes work units and collects results via this
+ client.  This package provides the core infrastructure to attach the
+ local machine to a various selection of distributed computing projects.
+ The project-specific code is downloaded dynamically. Its execution and
+ the communication is all controlled by this client.
  .
   Homepage: http://boinc.berkeley.edu
 
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: boinc-client
-Description: control and monitor utility for the BOINC core client
+Description: control and monitor utility for volunteer computing
  The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a
  software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer
  resources.
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@
 Section: devel
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libc-dev, libstdc++-dev, libssl-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev
-Description: BOINC platform for distributed computing (development files)
+Description: development files for volunteer computing platform
  The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a
  software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer
  resources.