control: Improved oping's package description.

[pkg-liboping.git] / debian / control

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7997f63890e83f0d80f8d19a6440d6eb53161db1..d540c60275fb3527be6fb1aac9a324cfad112936 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, liboping0 (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}),
 Description: sends ICMP_ECHO requests to network hosts
  oping uses ICMP packages (better known as "ping packets") to test the
  reachability of network hosts. It supports pinging multiple hosts in parallel
- using IPv4 or IPv6 transparently.
+ using IPv4 and/or IPv6 transparently.
+ .
+ This package contains two command line applications: "oping" is a replacement
+ for tools like ping(1), ping6(1) and fping(1). "noping" is an ncurses-based
+ tool which displays statistics while pinging and highlights aberrant
+ round-trip times.
 
 Package: libnet-oping-perl
 Section: perl