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author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2014-03-18 21:47:42 +0000 |
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committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2014-03-18 21:47:42 +0000 |
commit | 72f225fc49f918754e8056cb8d7c0f74eef13c51 (patch) | |
tree | 81761f093ca893a9104f8c6967206fccfd000915 /debian/control | |
parent | e899b539741d0d62643508ed26a1a5825f722aa1 (diff) | |
download | ttystatus-72f225fc49f918754e8056cb8d7c0f74eef13c51.tar.gz |
Make Debian package description more useful
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/control')
-rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 6d79c33..8e9b41e 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -12,6 +12,17 @@ Architecture: all Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, python (>= 2.6) Homepage: http://liw.fi/ttystatus/ Description: terminal progress bar and status output for Python - The ttystatus Python library provides a simple widget-based way to show - progress and current status in command line programs. - + ttystatus is a Python library for showing progress reporting and status + updates on terminals, for (Unix) command line programs. Output is + automatically adapted to the width of the terminal: truncated if it does + not fit, and re-sized if the terminal size changes. + . + Output is provided via widgets. Each widgets formats some data into + a suitable form for output. It gets the data either via its initializer, + or from key/value pairs maintained by the master object. The values are + set by the user. Every time a value is updated, widgets get updated + (although the terminal is only updated every so often to give user time + to actually read the output). + . + The output from ttystatus goes to the terminal (`/dev/tty`) and is + restricted to a single line. |