Description improvements. Closes: #549450 (Thanks, Justin B Rye)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0e42f6e60345b68a09aa75630222d411beb2523d..343fd75e550b72c890ae095c283a835fed01713e 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This is a collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write
-thirty years ago. Currently it consists of these tools:
+long ago, when unix was young. Currently it consists of these tools:
 
 combine
        combine the lines in two files using boolean operations

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9dc6fe1e5e3421394725e6650a3d652f6dd5889e..548d3016ddf6763f5f89e83b96c707392f102b4a 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+moreutils (0.38) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Description improvements. Closes: #549450
+    (Thanks, Justin B Rye)
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:33:07 -0400
+
 moreutils (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * parallel: Clarify man page regarding CPUs. Closes: #536597

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7d49b2d8cff13317ee9886739c5c7b5462886835..8caa7fd64b19929047a3be5683294acde381de4c 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,19 +15,19 @@ Conflicts: lckdo
 Replaces: lckdo
 Description: additional unix utilities
  This is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought
- to write thirty years ago.
+ to write long ago, when unix was young.
  .
  So far, it includes the following utilities:
-  - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
+  - combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
   - ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
   - ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
-  - vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
-  - vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
-  - ts: timestamp standard input
-  - combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
-  - pee: tee standard input to pipes
-  - zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command
-  - mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
   - isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
   - lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
+  - mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
   - parallel: run multiple jobs at once
+  - pee: tee standard input to pipes
+  - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
+  - ts: timestamp standard input
+  - vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
+  - vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
+  - zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command