Package: gif2apng
Version: 1.7-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Normally I only call these package-description patches "minor" bugs at
worst, but this is a case of the package synopsis directly lying to
users about the software's primary function:
Description: convert APNG animated images to GIF files
Then of course the first line of the long description contradicting
this is misspelled and isn't a sentence. The following paragraph
defining APNGs is fine (though perhaps it should mention the fact that
the APNG extension was rejected by the PNG group), but please work out
which direction this software converts in!
While I'm fixing that I'll also make it comply with the best practice
described in the Developer's Reference: the synopsis should be an
articleless noun phrase, not a verb phrase. For symmetry I also
attach a matching patch for apng2gif.
Meanwhile, the man page is badly confused, too, getting the
executable's name wrong (though horrifyingly enough gif2apng really
does use MS-DOS-style /option syntax). My patch only covers the
problems specific to the Debian package description.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gif2apng depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2
gif2apng recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gif2apng suggests:
pn apng2gif <none>
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru gif2apng-1.7.pristine/debian/control gif2apng-1.7/debian/control
--- gif2apng-1.7.pristine/debian/control 2012-04-14 08:57:46.000000000 +0100
+++ gif2apng-1.7/debian/control 2012-04-18 12:28:14.723392457 +0100
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Suggests: apng2gif
-Description: convert APNG animated images to GIF files
- Progrmam converts animated GIF to animated APNG format.
+Description: tool for converting animated GIF images to APNG format
+ This package provides a command line tool for converting images from
+ animated GIF to Animated PNG format.
.
The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) file format is an
extension to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification. It
diff -ru apng2gif-1.5.pristine/debian/control apng2gif-1.5/debian/control
--- apng2gif-1.5.pristine/debian/control 2012-03-11 07:16:42.000000000 +0000
+++ apng2gif-1.5/debian/control 2012-04-18 12:31:34.647714923 +0100
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
Package: apng2gif
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: convert APNG animated images to GIF files
- Progrmam apng2gif converts APNG into animated GIF format.
+Description: tool for converting APNG images to animated GIF format
+ This package provides a command line tool for converting images from
+ Animated PNG to animated GIF format.
.
The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) file format is an
extension to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification. It
