The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 0f76510f80316a7d485ae5208863e6bfb9296cf2 Author: Ralf Treinen <trei...@free.fr> Date: Tue Jan 10 21:49:24 2012 +0100
add long description diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index c95ee75..b48cbf4 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -16,4 +16,17 @@ Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${ocaml:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Provides: ${ocaml:Provides} Description: computes the co-installability kernel of a deb or RPM distribution - Long description: TODO + This packages is useful when you are interested in analyzing + co-installability of packages in a large package repository. A set + of package is called co-installable if it can be extended to a set + that satisfies all inter-package relations (dependencies, conflicts, + etc.). + . + This tool reduces a repository to a much smaller one, its so-called + co-installability kernel, that behaves exactly the same as far as + co-installability of package is concerned. This is achieved by + - dropping all relations that are not relevant for this purpose + - identifying all packages that behave the same. + The kernel is typically orders of magnitude smaller than the original + repository. + -- coinst packaging _______________________________________________ Pkg-ocaml-maint-commits mailing list Pkg-ocaml-maint-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-ocaml-maint-commits