On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > Sage Weil <[email protected]> writes: > > > Three binary packages are built: > > ceph - server daemons, utilities > > ceph-fuse - FUSE-based client > > ceph-kclient-source - source for kernel client module > > The package description should conform to the guildelines in the > ÿÿbest packaging practicesÿÿ in the Developer's Reference > <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis>, > <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-desc>. > > In particular, it should tell the administrator, who should be assumed > to know *nothing* about the package, a brief answer to the question > ÿÿwhat is this and why should I install it?ÿÿ I don't think the above > synopses meet that.
They sure don't. Here are the short and long descriptions from debian/control: > Please post here the full descriptions (including the one-line > synopsis and the long description) for each of those packages. Package: ceph Description: distributed file system Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. . This package contains all server daemons and tools for creating, running, and administering a Ceph file system. Package: ceph-fuse Description: FUSE-based client for the Ceph distributed file system Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a FUSE-based client that allows you to mount a Ceph file system without root privileges. . Because the FUSE-based client has certain inherent performance limitations, it is recommended that the native Linux kernel client be used if possible (see ceph-kclient-source). If it is not practical to load a kernel module (insufficient privileges, older kernel, etc.), then the FUSE client will do. Package: ceph-kclient-source Description: source for client kernel module for the Ceph distributed file system Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is the Ceph client source package for building the client kernel module. . This native kernel client is faster and is more robust than the FUSE-based client (ceph-fuse). However, you need to compile the module against your running kernel and will need root privileges to load it. Thanks- sage
