Bug#763671: gnutls-bin descriptions do not contain any mention of certtool

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Oct 1 19:37:02 UTC 2014


Control: 763671 tags + patch

On 10/01/2014 01:59 PM, Guillaume ! wrote:
> Package: gnutls-bin 
> Version: 3.0.22-3+really2.12.20-8+deb7u2
> 
> Its a minor annoyment, but its nice when descriptions contain the names
> of the main executable of the package so when a script tells you:
> certtool: command not found, you can apt-cache search and find the 
> package you need to install.
> 
> I haven't read the whole debian policy before posting, so it might or
> not be an infringement of it.

arguably, the "main executable" in gnutls-bin is either gnutls-cli or
gnutls-serv, but i think this is a good idea anyway.

I've just sent a patch.

I don't think it's a matter of debian-policy, fwiw (though it might be
nice to adjust policy to make this recommendation).

	--dkg

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