#649678 alien doesn't use --description for package summary

#649678#5
Date:
2011-11-23 03:15:18 UTC
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I'm using alien to convert a tarball into a Debian package. When I
install the newly created package and search for it using `apt-cache
search`, I get the following:

  $ apt-cache search checksum
  ...
  pt-table-checksum - Converted tgz package

To me "Converted tgz package" is kind of useless. I've provided a
--description to `alien` when building, but it doesn't use my
description as the parameter to `summary` for Alien::Package. It's only
use is to concat it onto the full description (useless with apt-cache
search).

I suggest using the --description option for the one-liner summary if
provided so that I get the following:

  $ apt-cache search checksum
  ...
  pt-table-checksum - Percona table checksum (Verify MySQL replication
  integrity)

I'm using Debian Squeeze.

Alfie