On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:24:59 +0100 Justin B Rye <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: > > the package description of libsctp1 (1) is partly outdated: > > "⦠now available in the Linux kernel source tree in versions 2.5.36 > > respectively 2.4.24 and following". Squeeze already has 2.6.32 and > > upstream (2) states: > > > > The Linux kernel has built-in support for the SCTP protocol since the > > 2.6 kernel series. > > > > Furthermore I would like SCTP to be explained in the first paragraph. > [...] > > Package: libsctp1 > [...] > > Description: user-space access to Linux Kernel SCTP - shared library > > SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a message oriented, > > reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for > > transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. > > RFC 2960 defines the core protocol. > > . > > This library is part of the LKSCTP project for the Linux Kernel SCTP > > implementation and intended to supplement the Linux Kernel. > > Thankyou for getting rid of that agonising Deutschlish use of > "respectively". But I would prefer "Kernel" to be uncapitalised > throughout; it's nearly justifiable where it's spelling out part > of LKSCTP, but certainly not in "the Linux kernel". And just how many > repeats of LK do we need, anyway? Could we trim the last paragraph > to: > > This library is part of the LKSCTP project, supplementing the Linux > kernel SCTP implementation. > > > > Package: libsctp-dev > [...] > > Description: user-space access to Linux Kernel SCTP - development files > > SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a message oriented, > > reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for > > transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. > > RFC 2960 defines the core protocol. > > . > > This package contains all necessary files for developing SCTP aware > > network applications using the Linux Kernel SCTP implementation. > > It is part of the LKSCTP project for the Linux Kernel SCTP implementation. > > . > > It includes man pages, header files, static libraries, symlinks to > > dynamic libraries and tutorial source code. > ^ > Since the new boilerplate has "Harvard comma" I would also recommend > adding one here. These paragraphs also seem repetitive. How about: > > This package is part of the LKSCTP project, and contains all necessary > files for developing SCTP aware network applications using the Linux > kernel SCTP implementation: man pages, header files, [...] > > > Package: lksctp-tools > [...] > > Description: user-space access to Linux Kernel SCTP - commandline tools > > SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a message oriented, > > reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for
The attached patch does not apply against debian/control from the package. Please send a clean patch which I can consider for review. Thanks -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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