Package: coreutils
Version: 7.4-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The package description's list of included binaries is out of date.
It fails to mention arch, base64, chcon/runcon, flock, sha224sum
(etc), shuf, and truncate (but it does include mktemp).
My patch also fixes a couple of other trivial issues in passing:
* the capitalised definite article in the short description is
deprecated in DevRef 6.2.2;
* the first paragraph of long description isn't particularly
descriptive (it just uses a couple of near-synonyms of
"core"), so replace it with some explanatory text from the
upstream website;
* also, add a Homepage: line.
However, I can't help feeling that the only sensible long-term
solution would be for packages like bsdutils, coreutils,
debianutils, and sysvinit-utils to maintain contents-lists like this
via some sort of standard debhelper tool...
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru coreutils-7.4.pristine/debian/control coreutils-7.4/debian/control
--- coreutils-7.4.pristine/debian/control 2009-07-01 18:58:03.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils-7.4/debian/control 2009-07-01 23:56:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -10,17 +10,20 @@
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Essential: yes
Replaces: mktemp
-Description: The GNU core utilities
- This package contains the essential basic system utilities.
+Description: GNU core utilities
+ This package contains the basic file, shell and text manipulation
+ utilities which are expected to exist on every operating system.
.
Specifically, this package includes:
- basename cat chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp csplit cut date dd df dir
- dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr factor false fmt fold groups head
- hostid id install join link ln logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp
- mv nice nl nohup od paste pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink
- rm rmdir sha1sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee
- test touch tr true tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc who
- whoami yes
+ arch base64 basename cat chcon chgrp chmod chown chroot cksum comm cp
+ csplit cut date dd df dir dircolors dirname du echo env expand expr
+ factor false flock fmt fold groups head hostid id install join link ln
+ logname ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mktemp mv nice nl nohup od paste
+ pathchk pinky pr printenv printf ptx pwd readlink rm rmdir runcon
+ sha*sum seq shred sleep sort split stat stty sum sync tac tail tee test
+ touch tr true truncate tsort tty uname unexpand uniq unlink users vdir wc
+ who whoami yes
+Homepage: http://gnu.org/software/coreutils
Package: mktemp
Pre-Depends: coreutils (>= 7.4-1)
