Bug 15339

Summary:	Many kernel ebuilds have very generic description
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brandon Hale (RETIRED) <tseng>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brandon Hale (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-02-08 18:51:49 UTC

Gentoo has a quickly growing set of kernel sources, but most of them simply copy
the description "Full sources for the Gentoo Linux kernel." Doing an emerge -s
xxx-sources, I would expect to see more description of the package's
contents/purpose.  I see this less now than in the past, but serveral packages,
(gentoo-sources, mjc-sources, crypto-sources, vanilla-sources, sparc-sources,
ppc-sources, and development-sources all have the same generic description
original written for gentoo-sources

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -s sources
Actual Results:  
emerge -s printed the requested information, but the descriptions were very,
well... undescriptive (eg, what is the purpose of lolo/mjc sources? ck-sources
is better explained imo

Expected Results:  
More descriptive output

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-02-08 22:25:20 UTC

*** Bug 15341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-15 18:39:36 UTC

well, we made some changes to a few descriptions. but, for more detailed info, read the 
changelog or release notes. 
 
Jay