Improve package descriptions

5 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
index c201972..8ff7d3d 100644
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ mpfr (4.0.2-1) trunk
   * libmpfr.4: Replace with libmpfr.6.
   * libmpfr-dev: Remove static library.
   * libmpfr.6: Use automatic shared library dependencies.
+  * Improve package descriptions.
 
  -- Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>  Wed, 01 May 2019 22:49:13 -0400
 
diff --git a/libmpfr-dev.pkg/control b/libmpfr-dev.pkg/control
index b708c16..480b8a1 100644
--- a/libmpfr-dev.pkg/control
+++ b/libmpfr-dev.pkg/control
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 Architecture: any
 Platform: all
 Depends: libmpfr.6 (= ${Binary-Version})
-Description: This package provides development files for MPFR.
+Description: Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library - development files
+ ${Common-Description}
+ .
+ This package provides development files for the MPFR library.
diff --git a/libmpfr-doc.pkg/control b/libmpfr-doc.pkg/control
index 4b9ba00..c89a7ac 100644
--- a/libmpfr-doc.pkg/control
+++ b/libmpfr-doc.pkg/control
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 Architecture: all
 Platform: all
 Depends: libmpfr.6 (= ${Binary-Version})
-Description: This package provides the manual page for MPFR.
+Description: Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library - documentation
+ ${Common-Description}
+ .
+ This package provides documentation for the MPFR library.
diff --git a/libmpfr.6.pkg/control b/libmpfr.6.pkg/control
index 0944167..8ab6ab8 100644
--- a/libmpfr.6.pkg/control
+++ b/libmpfr.6.pkg/control
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Architecture: any
 Platform: all
 Depends: ${Shlib-Depends}
-Description: MPFR is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding.
+Description: Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library
+ ${Common-Description}
diff --git a/substvars b/substvars
index 139597f..e8a30ba 100644
--- a/substvars
+++ b/substvars
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
-
-
+Common-Description:
+ The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
+ computations with correct rounding.  The main goal of MPFR is to provide a
+ library for multiple-precision floating-point computation which is both
+ efficient and has a well-defined semantics.  It copies the good ideas from the
+ ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit
+ significand).