First task

[Cesare Tirabassi]

First of all, thanks for your pointers, help and especially patience
with this newbie.
I went along with something easy at first (Bug LP#88232: Package
description is very out of date) :-)
I changed the short description and long description in 'control' as
follows:

The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla
 Firefox 2 is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable.
 New powerful features have been added, among others:
 Web feeds, in line spell checking, integrated search capabilities,
 identity theft protection, and advanced tabbed browsing. 

The 'changelog' was changed with the following addition (using dch -i):

firefox (2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low

  * package description updated (Closes: LP#88232)

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <norsetto at alice.it>  Fri,  9 Mar 2007 09:08:04
+0100

I then rebuild the source package and checked that the executable build
is ok.
This is the diff between the two source packages:

diff -Nru /tmp/JlARGXGcGM/firefox-2.0.0.2
+1/debian/changelog /tmp/goRRKpBClM/firefox-2.0.0.2+1/debian/changelog
--- /tmp/JlARGXGcGM/firefox-2.0.0.2+1/debian/changelog	2007-03-09
09:59:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/goRRKpBClM/firefox-2.0.0.2+1/debian/changelog	2007-03-09
09:59:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+firefox (2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
+
+  * package description updated (Closes: LP#88232)
+
+ -- Cesare Tirabassi <norsetto at alice.it>  Fri,  9 Mar 2007 09:08:04
+0100
+
 firefox (2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 
   * new upstream release 2.0.0.2
diff -Nru /tmp/JlARGXGcGM/firefox-2.0.0.2
+1/debian/control /tmp/goRRKpBClM/firefox-2.0.0.2+1/debian/control
--- /tmp/JlARGXGcGM/firefox-2.0.0.2+1/debian/control	2007-03-09
09:59:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/goRRKpBClM/firefox-2.0.0.2+1/debian/control	2007-03-09
09:59:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -12,12 +12,11 @@
 Provides: www-browser
 Conflicts: mozilla-firefox (<< 1.5.dfsg-1)
 Replaces: mozilla-firefox
-Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
- Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component, similar to
- Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface
- language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.
- .
- This browser was previously known as Firebird and Phoenix.
+Description: The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla
+ Firefox 2 is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable.
+ New powerful features have been added, among others:
+ Web feeds, in line spell checking, integrated search capabilities,
+ identity theft protection, and advanced tabbed browsing. 
 
 Package: firefox-dom-inspector
 Architecture: all

I guess this is somehow useless as most probably you don't want to
update the source package just with this bit but it was a good exercise
for me nonetheless :-)

I will keep trying to do something useful for the MOTU/TODO but your
comments/requests on the above will be highly appreciated!

ct