improve package descriptions, remove ancient package relationship spec in

[gzip] / debian / control

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3adea2d6ab53fbaab53ac67629fb775253a8d20f..9065c4e1d52be36a44e2b5486556d2b97ad68b15 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,15 +10,13 @@ XS-DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Package: gzip
 Architecture: any
 Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Depends: debianutils (>= 1.6)
 Essential: yes
 Suggests: less
-Description: The GNU compression utility
- This is the standard GNU file compression utility, which is also the default
- compression tool for Debian.  It typically operates on files with names 
- ending in '.gz'.
- .
- This package can also decompress '.Z' files created with 'compress'.
+Description: GNU compression utilities
+  This package provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which 
+  are also the default compression tools for Debian.  They typically operate 
+  on files with names ending in '.gz', but can also decompress files ending 
+  in '.Z' created with 'compress'.
 
 Package: gzip-win32
 Architecture: all