On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:54:16PM +0200, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote:
>  Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
>  Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
> -Description: SSL shared libraries
> - libssl and libcrypto shared libraries needed by programs like
> - apache-ssl, telnet-ssl and openssh.
> +Description: Secure Sockets Layer implementation - shared libraries
> + This package is part of the OpenSSL project's implementation of the SSL
> + cryptograpfic protocol for communication security over the internet.
>   .
> - It is part of the OpenSSL implementation of SSL.
> + The libssl and libcrypto shared libraries are needed by programs like
> + apache-ssl, telnet-ssl and openssh.

I'm not sure mentioning those package is useful, since it gets
installed as dependency.  It doesn't explain what it does.  But
I really have nothing really useful to say about such things.

> @@ -57,11 +64,12 @@
>  Multi-Arch: same
>  Recommends: libssl-doc
>  Depends: libssl1.0.0 (= ${binary:Version}), zlib1g-dev, ${misc:Depends}
> -Description: SSL development libraries, header files and documentation
> - libssl and libcrypto development libraries, header files and manpages.
> +Description: Secure Sockets Layer implementation - development files
> + This package is part of the OpenSSL project's implementation of the SSL
> + cryptograpfic protocol for communication security over the internet.
>   .
> - It is part of the OpenSSL implementation of SSL.
> -
> + It contains development libraries, header files and manpages for the libssl
> + and libcrypto libraries.

Maybe it should mention both SSL and TLS.

Maybe it should make a reference to https?

Do you think it's useful to also mention things like RSA
in the description of the shared libraries?


Kurt


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