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authorJonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>2012-05-08 21:44:26 +0100
committerJonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>2012-06-02 00:21:26 +0100
commit16cee70dc0d314039de5880bc737f3582a7ffa3f (patch)
tree612e43565e0b4d7a89e34624bfc0c610216a6471
parentc569c486ae5aef43c4bbcff36df758839584eed3 (diff)
downloadfiglet-16cee70dc0d314039de5880bc737f3582a7ffa3f.tar.gz
Update package description
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog1
-rw-r--r--debian/control10
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 76ebdee..e14febd 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ figlet (2.2.5-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format
- Switch to dh-style debian/rules (closes: #672320)
- Various lintian fixes
+ - Update package description (closes: #557254)
- Add watchfile
- Add Homepage to debian/control
- Remove references to deprecated figfonts(-cjk) packages
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f416c95..11e9c55 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ Homepage: http://www.figlet.org/
Package: figlet
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters
- Figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen
- characters. It can create characters in many different styles and can
+Description: Make large character ASCII banners out of ordinary text
+ Figlet (Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters) is a program that creates large
+ characters out of ordinary screen characters.
+ .
+ It can create characters in many different styles and can
kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. Figlet
output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people
- like to put at the end of e-mail and Usenet messages.
+ like to put at the end of e-mail, Usenet and MOTD messages.