Package: sqlrelay Severity: minor The description used by sqlrelay is really bad. For example the mysql version of the package has,
Description: SQL Relay MySQL connection daemon SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux supporting ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Interbase, Lago and SQLite with C, C++, Perl, Perl-DBD, Python, Python-DB, Zope, PHP, Ruby and Java APIs, command line clients, a GUI configuration tool and extensive documentation. The APIs support advanced database operations such as bind variables, multi-row fetches, client side result set caching and suspended transactions. It is ideal for seeding up database-driven web-based applications, accessing databases from unsupported platforms, migrating between databases, distributing access to replicated databases and throttling database access. . Homepage: http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/ . This package contains the MySQL connection daemon. Could you please explain to me why you just copy/paste the description like this? The above description could be used for sqlrelay, but not for every single package. The reason is that it breaks searching on package descriptions. For example, when I want to look for "ruby postgres" keywords, I get, $ apt-cache search ruby postgres libdbd-pg-ruby - Ruby/DBI PostgreSQL driver libdbd-pg-ruby1.6 - Ruby/DBI PostgreSQL driver for Ruby 1.6 libdbd-pg-ruby1.8 - Ruby/DBI PostgreSQL driver for Ruby 1.8 libdbd-sqlrelay-perl - SQL Relay Perl DBD API libfirstworks-sqlr-perl - SQL Relay Perl API libpgsql-ruby - PostgreSQL extension library for ruby (dummy package) libpgsql-ruby1.6 - PostgreSQL extension library for ruby1.6 libpgsql-ruby1.8 - PostgreSQL extension library for ruby1.8 libsqlrelay-ruby - SQL Relay Ruby API php4-sqlrelay - SQL Relay PHP API postgresql-plruby - Ruby procedural language for PostgreSQL python-sqlrelay - SQL Relay Python (default version) API python2.2-sqlrelay - SQL Relay Python 2.2 API python2.3-sqlrelay - SQL Relay Python 2.3 API sqlrelay - Database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing sqlrelay-config-gtk - SQL Relay configuration GTK+ client sqlrelay-dev - SQL Relay C and C++ APIs sqlrelay-doc - SQL Relay Documentation sqlrelay-freetds - SQL Relay FreeTDS (Sybase and MS SQL Server) connection daemon sqlrelay-mysql - SQL Relay MySQL connection daemon sqlrelay-odbc - SQL Relay ODBC connection daemon sqlrelay-postgresql - SQL Relay PostgreSQL connection daemon sqlrelay-sqlite - SQL Relay for SQLite connection daemon sqlrelay-test - SQL Relay tests zope-sqlrelayda - SQL Relay Zope database adapter What does sqlrelay-test or sqlrelay-doc have to do with ruby and postgres? Please remove the bloated descriptions from specific packages like sqlrelay-mysql and the like. A short description is better than a bloated one. Just having, This package contains the MySQL connection daemon for sqlrelay. would suffice as the extended description. Thanks, Adam -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages sqlrelay depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-9 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpcre3 5.0-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries pn librudiments0c102 Not found. ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxml2-utils 2.6.16-3 XML utilities -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
