From 001f0d2f6b0a71dd284398048311c3b76eeb766b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:41:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updating package descriptions. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- debian/control | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 783fb23..5bdae5d 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -9,19 +9,32 @@ Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html Package: plzip Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} -Description: parallel data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm - Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. Currently only - compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is planned to be - implemented soon. +Description: parallel, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm + Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe + integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. + Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, + which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving. + . + Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) version of lzip using the lzip + file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip. + . + Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on + multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for distribution + of big software files and large scale data archiving. On files big enough, + plzip can use hundreds of processors. Package: plzip-dbg Section: debug Priority: extra Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, plzip (= ${binary:Version}) -Description: parallel data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (debug) - Plzip is a parallel version of the lzip data compressor. Currently only - compression is performed in parallel. Parallel decompression is planned to be - implemented soon. +Description: parallel, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (debug) + Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe + integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. + Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, + which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving. + . + Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) version of lzip using the lzip + file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip. . This package contains the debugging symbols.