Thanks, I've applied the following to the git repository.
- Ted
commit 9aa109c95dd0fc2cbcb0d309ab830d5898e1344b
Author: Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon Jun 2 21:37:06 2008 -0400
debian: Improve uuid-runtime package description
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #483962
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 73e7ac8..c3ceda4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -95,8 +95,13 @@ Description: universally unique id library
libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's).
See RFC 4122 for more information.
.
- This package contains the uuidd daemon which is used by libuuid as well as
- the uuidgen program.
+ This package contains the uuidgen program and the uuidd daemon.
+ .
+ The uuidd daemon is used to generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs),
+ especially time-based UUID’s, in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion,
+ even in the face of large numbers of threads trying to grab UUID’s
+ running on different CPU’s. It is used by by libuuid as well as the
+ uuidgen program.
Package: libuuid1-udeb
Section: debian-installer
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