From 9aa109c95dd0fc2cbcb0d309ab830d5898e1344b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:37:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] debian: Improve uuid-runtime package description Addresses-Debian-Bug: #483962 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- debian/control | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 73e7ac8..c3ceda4 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -95,8 +95,13 @@ Description: universally unique id library libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's). See RFC 4122 for more information. . - This package contains the uuidd daemon which is used by libuuid as well as - the uuidgen program. + This package contains the uuidgen program and the uuidd daemon. + . + The uuidd daemon is used to generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), + especially time-based UUID’s, in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, + even in the face of large numbers of threads trying to grab UUID’s + running on different CPU’s. It is used by by libuuid as well as the + uuidgen program. Package: libuuid1-udeb Section: debian-installer -- 1.8.3.1