improve documentation of _append and some doc reorg

[code/myrepos.git] / debian / control

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 Source: mr
 Source: mr

-Section: utils
+Section: vcs

 Priority: optional
 Priority: optional

-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)

 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2

 Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/
 Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/mr
 
 Package: mr
 Architecture: all
 Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/
 Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/mr
 
 Package: mr
 Architecture: all

-Section: utils
-Depends: 
-Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs, bzr
-Description: a Multiple Repository management tool
- The mr(1) command allows you to register a set of repositories in 
- a .mrconfig file, and then checkout, update, or perform other actions on
- the repositories as if they were one big respository.
+Section: vcs
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Suggests: subversion, git-core | git (>= 1:1.7), cvs, bzr, mercurial, darcs, liburi-perl, curl, fossil
+Recommends: libwww-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, perl
+Description: Multiple Repository management tool
+ The mr(1) command can checkout, update, or perform other actions on
+ a set of repositories as if they were one combined respository. It
+ supports any combination of git, svn, mercurial, bzr, darcs, cvs, and
+ fossil repositories, and support for other version control systems
+ can easily be added. (There are extensions adding support for unison
+ and git-svn, amoung others.)

  .
  .

- Any mix of revision control systems can be used with mr(1), and you can
- define arbitrary actions for commands like "update", "checkout", or "commit".
+ It is extremely configurable via simple shell scripting. Some examples
+ of things it can do include:
+ .
+  * Update a repository no more frequently than once every twelve hours.
+  * Run an arbitrary command before committing to a repository.
+  * When updating a git repository, pull from two different upstreams
+    and merge the two together.
+  * Run several repository updates in parallel, greatly speeding up
+    the update process.
+  * Remember actions that failed due to a laptop being offline, so they
+    can be retried when it comes back online.
+  .
+  This package also includes the webcheckout command.