Make Debian package description more useful

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d67dc33..f1da0ed 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+python-ttystatus (0.24-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream version.
+  * debian/control: Make long description longer, more useful.
+
+ -- Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>  Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:46:57 +0000
+
 python-ttystatus (0.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream version.
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.