Bug#279752: jsvc-dev: description does not say what the package does

Ben Burton Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>, 279752@bugs.debian.org
Thu Nov 4 22:24:03 2004


Package: jsvc-dev
Version: 1.0-2
Severity: minor

Hi.  I noticed that the jsvc-dev package has recently been added to the
archives, but when I looked at the description I couldn't actually find
out what the package does.

The description begins with a description of a real-world problem,
followed by an explanation of how daemons are handled under windows and
linux.  At no point does the description actually explain what the
jsvc-dev package does.  Does it solve the problem that is described in
the description?  Does it emulate services under windows and/or linux, or
does it do something different?  The word "java" is never mentioned at
all.

The libcommons-daemon-java package is slightly better, in that it says
"This is the java library, see jsvc for the application".  Here I can
tell that the package contains a java library that does _something_, but
again the long description never says what this library does.

Thanks - Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages jsvc-dev depends on:
pn  jsvc                                     Not found.