debian/control: Make library package descriptions more consistent

The long descriptions for shared library and development packages
should distinguish them, but this wasn't done for libbpf and
liblockdep packages.

Both should describe what the library is for, but this wasn't done for
libcpupower packages.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0ba81c56eaa1..10803c01ab5c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ linux (5.4.6-1~exp1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   [ Ben Hutchings ]
   * [armel/rpi,armhf,arm64] Enable DEBUG_WX
   * linux-cpupower: Fix grammar error in package description
+  * debian/control: Make library package descriptions more consistent
 
   [ Aurelien Jarno ]
   * [armhf,arm64] Fix critical trip point on RPI 3.
diff --git a/debian/templates/control.tools-unversioned.in b/debian/templates/control.tools-unversioned.in
index 0b371ef13cd8..e3ed31e87be0 100644
--- a/debian/templates/control.tools-unversioned.in
+++ b/debian/templates/control.tools-unversioned.in
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Section: libs
 Architecture: linux-any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: CPU frequency and voltage scaling tools for Linux (libraries)
+ libcpupower is a library for inspecting and controlling cpufreq and
+ cpuidle tunables.
+ .
  This package contains the shared library.
 
 Package: libcpupower-dev
@@ -28,7 +31,10 @@ Provides: libcpufreq-dev
 Conflicts: libcpufreq-dev
 Replaces: libcpufreq-dev
 Description: CPU frequency and voltage scaling tools for Linux (development files)
- This package contains the 'power/cpupower' headers and library shared objects.
+ libcpupower is a library for inspecting and controlling cpufreq and
+ cpuidle tunables.
+ .
+ This package is needed to compile programs against libcpupower.
 
 Package: usbip
 Build-Profiles: <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools>
@@ -99,6 +105,8 @@ Description: Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V
 #Description: Runtime locking correctness validator (shared library)
 # liblockdep is a library for programs that use the pthreads API, which can
 # be used to detect actual and potential deadlocks and other locking bugs.
+# .
+# This package contains the shared library.
 #
 #Package: liblockdep-dev
 #Build-Profiles: <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools>
@@ -109,6 +117,8 @@ Description: Support daemons for Linux running on Hyper-V
 #Description: Runtime locking correctness validator (development files)
 # liblockdep is a library for programs that use the pthreads API, which can
 # be used to detect actual and potential deadlocks and other locking bugs.
+# .
+# This package is needed to compile programs against liblockdep.
 
 Package: libbpf0
 Build-Profiles: <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools>
@@ -119,6 +129,8 @@ Multi-Arch: same
 Description: eBPF helper library (shared library)
  libbpf is a library for loading eBPF programs and reading and
  manipulating eBPF objects from user-space.
+ .
+ This package contains the shared library.
 
 Package: libbpf-dev
 Build-Profiles: <!stage1 !pkg.linux.notools>
@@ -129,3 +141,5 @@ Multi-Arch: same
 Description: eBPF helper library (development files)
  libbpf is a library for loading eBPF programs and reading and
  manipulating eBPF objects from user-space.
+ .
+ This package is needed to compile programs against libbpf.