diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index e050f68..9a8481f 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +sugar-etoys-activity (116-2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Simplify setting main branch. + * Drop lintian override: lintian is wrong to expect package + dependencies being explicitly declared in control file. + * Modernize long description, based on upstream wiki phrases. + * Stop removing license file from binary package: Let CDBS replace + with symlink instead. + + -- Jonas Smedegaard Mon, 28 May 2012 18:32:03 +0200 + sugar-etoys-activity (116-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index ffd712e..926def0 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -24,14 +24,18 @@ Recommends: sugar Provides: ${python:Provides} Description: Sugar wrapper around the Squeak Etoys programming language - Sugar is a graphical user interface aimed at children. + Sugar is a desktop environment. It is conceived as a platform upon + which children learn with Sugar Activities. The platform provides + mechanisms for collaboration, reflection, and exploration. Sugar + Activities cover a broad range of applications: browsing, drawing, + composing, writing, programming, etc. . - Originating as integral part of the OLPC "XO" a.k.a. the $100 laptop, - Sugar has since grown into a more widely usable low-ressource desktop - environment for kids. + Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and + starLOGO. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple, + powerful scripted object model for many kinds of objects created by + end-users. It includes 2D and 3D graphics, images, text, particles, + presentations, web-pages, videos, sound and MIDI, etc. It includes the + ability to share desktops with other Etoy users in real-time, so many + forms of immersive mentoring and play can be done over the Internet. . - This package contains the Etoys activity. - . - Etoys is an educational tool for teaching children ideas in compelling - ways. It features a media-rich authoring environment and visual - programming system. + The Etoys activity embeds Squeak Etoys into Sugar.