On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:28:55PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I really wonder how we might get different descriptions if the packages > are supposed to come from the same source package. > > Any reasonable explanation for this?
James already replied with the specific details of this package.
More generally, Description is a field of binary package stanzas; as all
such fields, it gets generated at package build time and can therefore
be changed *during* build. In that respect, it is not much different to
Depends or similar fields, which we use to fill with possibly
arch-dependent information (such as ${shlibs:Depends}).
Cheers.
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