[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#986357: Please improve package description

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Enrico--

On Sun 2021-04-04 10:02:27 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> The package contains a user-facing tool, and the package description
> contains mostly redundant technical details about how the package is
> generated.
>
> Could you please update the description so that it explains what the sq
> command is supposed to do, so that one could use the description to see
> if it's a package that might do some of what they need?

Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you.

At the time you wrote this, i think the sq package description was
pretty similar to what it is today:

--------
Description: OpenPGP command-line tool from Sequoia
 sq is a command-line interface for OpenPGP, structured using
 subcommands and implemented in Rust.
 .
 Subcommands include: help, decrypt, encrypt, sign, verify, armor,
 dearmor, autocrypt, inspect, key, keyring, certify, packet.
 .
 It offers modern cryptographic algorithms by default, like Ed25519 and
 Curve25519.
 .
 The tool offers both message handling (encryption, decryption,
 signing, and verification), and key and certificate management (key
 generation, certificate maintenance, and certification), and is
 interoperable with other major OpenPGP implementations like GnuPG
 (gpg).
 .
 WARNING: sq does not have a stable CLI interface yet.  Use with
 caution in scripts.
 This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate
 "sequoia-sq":
  - sq
--------

This contains the fact that it's a command-line OpenPGP tool, describes
the various things it can do, and references some comparable
implementations (so people can find it if they search for GnuPG or gpg)

Can you say a little bit more about what you would prefer it to say
instead?

        --dkg
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