diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index d29490759c99ccfc49f7f382976f9562c4ace91b..ea971eda72ead5e8b4548f2ba34476209da75656 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ Uploaders: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>, Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>, Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>, Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>, + Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7) Build-Depends-Indep: texinfo, texlive-extra-utils, texlive, texlive-generic-recommended -Standards-Version: 3.9.3 +Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Homepage: http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/ Vcs-Git: git://common-lisp.net/projects/asdf/asdf.git @@ -20,10 +21,14 @@ Replaces: sbcl-common (<= 1:0.9.13.0-2) Breaks: sbcl-common (<= 1:0.9.13.0-2), common-lisp-controller (<< 7.3) Depends: ${misc:Depends} Description: Another System Definition Facility - asdf provides a "make" type functions for Common Lisp software. + ASDF provides the functionality of make and ld.so for Common Lisp software: It drives compilation and dynamic loading for complex Lisp systems with multiple modules and files, and is the de facto standard used by free software written in Common Lisp. . + It also includes a utility library, UIOP, to portably deal with many issues + that all Common Lisp programs have to deal with, including handling pathnames, + accessing the filesystem, executing external programs, user configuration, etc. + . Most Common Lisp implementations already provide asdf via (require "asdf"), but not all of them provide an up-to-date version.