Improve package descriptions

5 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
index 1efd9e5..adb577e 100644
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ gmp (6.1.2-1) trunk
   * Update homepage.
   * libgmp-dev: Remove static library.
   * libgmp.10: Use automatic shared library dependencies.
+  * Improve package descriptions.
 
  -- Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>  Wed, 01 May 2019 19:23:40 -0400
 
diff --git a/libgmp-dev.pkg/control b/libgmp-dev.pkg/control
index 74ab5ed..e8d13d6 100644
--- a/libgmp-dev.pkg/control
+++ b/libgmp-dev.pkg/control
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Architecture: any
 Platform: all
 Depends: libgmp.10 (= ${Binary-Version})
-Description: GMP development files.
+Description: GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library - development files
  ${Common-Description}
+ .
+ This package provides development files for GMP.
diff --git a/libgmp-doc.pkg/control b/libgmp-doc.pkg/control
index 0fe83de..ebaae12 100644
--- a/libgmp-doc.pkg/control
+++ b/libgmp-doc.pkg/control
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Architecture: all
 Platform: all
 Depends: libgmp.10 (= ${Binary-Version})
-Description:  GMP library documentation.
+Description: GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library - documentation
  ${Common-Description}
+ .
+ This package provides documentation for GMP.
diff --git a/libgmp.10.pkg/control b/libgmp.10.pkg/control
index c1f6c40..90227cd 100644
--- a/libgmp.10.pkg/control
+++ b/libgmp.10.pkg/control
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Architecture: any
 Platform: all
 Depends: ${Shlib-Depends}
-Description: ${Common-Description}
+Description: GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
diff --git a/substvars b/substvars
index c5642a1..17e7c8f 100644
--- a/substvars
+++ b/substvars
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Common-Description:
- The GNU Multiple Precision (GMP) Arithmetic Library is a free library for
- arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational
- numbers, and floating point numbers.
+ GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed
+ integers, rational numbers, and floating-point numbers.
  .
  The main target applications for GMP are cryptography applications and
  research, Internet security applications, algebra systems, computational