Add extended description about Go being experimental and can change between weekly releases

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7a6e0a0d4..3707959f4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Architecture: i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 armel armhf
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
 Recommends: golang-weekly-tools
 Provides: go-compiler, golang-go
-Description: Go programming language compiler
+Description: Experimental Go programming language compiler
  This package provides assembler, compiler and linker for the Go
  programming language.  This is Google's Go implementation of the
  tool chain.
@@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ Description: Go programming language compiler
  fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
  dynamically typed, interpreted language.
  .
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
 
 Package: golang-weekly-src
 Conflicts: golang-src
@@ -52,8 +56,12 @@ Description: Go programming language compiler (.go source files)
  fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
  dynamically typed, interpreted language.
  .
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
 
 Package: golang-weekly-doc
 Conflicts: golang-doc
@@ -79,10 +87,12 @@ Description: Documentation for Google's Go programming language
  formatted documentation by running godoc --http=:6060 and then
  visiting http://localhost:6060/doc/install.html.
  .
- TODO: Pregenerate HTML documentation to /usr/share/doc/golang-doc/html
- .
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
 
 Package: golang-weekly-tools
 Conflicts: golang-tools
@@ -109,8 +119,12 @@ Description: Tools for Google's Go programming language
  fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
  dynamically typed, interpreted language.
  .
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
 
 Package: golang-weekly-dbg
 Conflicts: golang-dbg
@@ -134,7 +148,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
 	 golang-weekly-src (>= ${source:Version}),
 	 golang-weekly-tools (>= ${source:Version})
 Architecture: all
-Description: Go programming language [meta package]
+Description: Experimental Go programming language [meta package]
  This package is a metapackage that, when installed, guarantees
  that (almost) full Go development environment is installed.
  .
@@ -148,5 +162,9 @@ Description: Go programming language [meta package]
  fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
  dynamically typed, interpreted language.
  .
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.