Package: libyaml-tiny-perl
Version: 1.43-1
Severity: minor

>From the long description:

  "The YAML specification is huge. Like, really huge....The pure-Perl
  implementation of YAML costs just over 4 megabytes of memory to load.
  Just like with Windows .ini files (3 meg t..."

Please do not just copy the advertisement hype of upstream into the
package description. The package description should just
describe what the package does and how it relates to the rest of the system
(policy 3.4.2). Like, it is a simple implementation of a subset (?) of the 
YAML format, which consumes much less resources (which one? memory? cpu?)
than syck.

-Ralf.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libyaml-tiny-perl depends on:
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

libyaml-tiny-perl recommends no packages.

libyaml-tiny-perl suggests no packages.



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