[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#642419: [openssl] issues in descriptions (no manual pages in libssl-dev)

Filipus Klutiero chealer at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 14:41:08 UTC 2011


Package: openssl
Version: 1.0.0e-2
Severity: minor

Here are a few issues about descriptions.

Primarily, libssl-dev's description contains:

> libssl and libcrypto development libraries, header files and manpages. 

But I don't see any manpage in libssl-dev. Manpages appear to be in 
libssl-doc.



If someone feels like it, libssl's description reads:

> libssl and libcrypto shared libraries needed by programs like 
> apache-ssl, telnet-ssl and openssh.
>
> It is part of the OpenSSL implementation of SSL.
>

With the number of packages using libssl today, perhaps the list could 
be dropped and the focus moved to describing libssl and libcrypto's 
features.

If the list is to be kept, note that apache-ssl is no longer in Debian. 
This could be replaced by "Apache httpd (mod_ssl)". The capitalization 
for OpenSSH is... "OpenSSH".

Also, libssl-doc's short description reads:

> SSL development documentation documentation

which seems partially redundant.






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