-update debian packages, improve descriptions

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c1025b73..113476eb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+taler-exchange (0.8.99-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Packaging latest pre-release from Git.
+
+ -- Christian Grothoff <grothoff@gnu.org>  Mon, Sep 26 2022 09:50:12 +0200
+
 taler-merchant (0.8.99-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Updating to latest pre-release from Git.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 578b13bc..f0416127 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ Depends:
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends}
 Description: libraries to talk to a GNU Taler merchant.
+ .
+ The GNU Taler merchant backend provides e-commerce
+ applications with a simple RESTful API to integrate
+ payments using GNU Taler. This C library implements
+ a client-side version of that REST API.  Please note
+ that the core API is pretty simple, so applications
+ may legitimately choose to implement the API directly
+ instead of using this wrapper.
 
 Package: taler-merchant
 Architecture: any
@@ -51,6 +59,11 @@ Depends:
 Recommends:
  postgresql (>=13.0)
 Description: GNU's payment system merchant backend.
+ .
+ The GNU Taler merchant backend provides e-commerce
+ applications with a simple RESTful API to integrate
+ payments using GNU Taler. This package provides the
+ merchant backend.
 
 Package: libtalermerchant-dev
 Section: libdevel
@@ -60,6 +73,6 @@ Depends:
  libgnunet-dev (>=0.17.1),
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: libraries to talk to a GNU Taler merchant (development)
+Description: libraries to talk to a GNU Taler merchant (development).
  .
- This package contains the development files.
+ This package contains the development files for libtalermerchant.