Package: bird
Version: 1.2.5-1
Severity: wishlist
The short descriptions for bird and bird6 are identical:
Description: Internet Routing Daemon
Only on comparing the long descriptions closely does it become clear
that bird is IPv4-only whereas bird6 is IPv6-only. You may think
this is obvious from the package-names, but compare, say, drupal6,
grace6, or indeed libc6 in the dependencies below, where it's just a
version number. Users looking for either kind of routing daemon
(especially if they don't expect the functionality to be split
between two packages) are likely to be led up the garden path; this
could easily be avoided by differentiating the package synopses.
But once I'm editing the control file, I find myself obliged to
suggest a lot more changes:
Bird is an internet routing daemons which manages TCP/IP based routing
I ✗ ✗✗✗✗✗✗✗✗✗✗✗✗
protocols with full support of all modern routing protocols. Bird is easy to
??? [repetitive] ??
use configuration interface and powerful route filtering language.
.
It supports IPv4 versions OSPFv2, RIPv2 (No v1), BGP and redistribution between
? [nb no OSPFv1]
the protocols with a powerful configuration syntax.
[misplaced - this doesn't vary between bird and bird6]
I would suggest something like:
Description: Internet Routing Daemon for IPv{4,6}
BIRD is a daemon for managing Internet routing, with full support of
all the major routing protocols. It allows redistribution between
protocols, with a powerful route filtering syntax and an easy-to-use
configuration interface.
.
This package supports IPv{4,6} versions of OSPF (v{2,3}), RIP ({v2,ng}), and
BGP.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 (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 bird depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
Versions of packages bird recommends:
pn bird6 <none> (no description available)
bird suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
--- ../bird-1.2.5.pristine/debian/control 2010-11-14 14:16:40.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/control 2010-11-14 15:12:37.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,27 +10,23 @@
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Conflicts: zebra, routed
Recommends: bird6
-Description: Internet Routing Daemon
- Bird is an internet routing daemons which manages TCP/IP based
- routing protocols with full support of all modern routing
- protocols. Bird is easy to use configuration interface and powerful
- route filtering language.
+Description: Internet Routing Daemon for IPv4
+ BIRD is a daemon for managing Internet routing, with full support of
+ all the major routing protocols. It allows redistribution between
+ protocols, with a powerful route filtering syntax and an easy-to-use
+ configuration interface.
.
- It supports IPv4 versions OSPFv2, RIPv2 (No v1), BGP and
- redistribution between the protocols with a powerful configuration
- syntax.
+ This package supports IPv4 versions of OSPF (v2), RIP (v2), and BGP.
Package: bird6
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Conflicts: zebra, routed
Recommends: bird
-Description: Internet Routing Daemon
- Bird is an internet routing daemons which manages TCP/IP based
- routing protocols with full support of all modern routing
- protocols. Bird is easy to use configuration interface and powerful
- route filtering language.
+Description: Internet Routing Daemon for IPv6
+ BIRD is a daemon for managing Internet routing, with full support of
+ all the major routing protocols. It allows redistribution between
+ protocols, with a powerful route filtering syntax and an easy-to-use
+ configuration interface.
.
- It supports IPv6 versions of OSPFv3, RIPv2 (No v1), BGP and
- redistribution between the protocols with a powerful configuration
- syntax.
+ This package supports IPv6 versions of OSPF (v3), RIP (ng), and BGP.
