# New upstream release; sent ITP.

[tabix.git] / debian / control

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8f101fb4bc176018aedc6fda31ea017e66affc2b..5198639bccd2a8d309df33c88c105a38604d85bb 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)
 Standards-Version: 3.8.4
-Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>
-#Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/tabix.git
-#Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/tabix.git;a=summary
+Homepage: http://samtools.sourceforge.net/tabix.shtml
+Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/debian-med/tabix.git
+Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/tabix.git;a=summary
 
 Package: tabix
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: <insert up to 60 chars description>
- <insert long description, indented with spaces>
+Description: generic indexer for TAB-delimited genome position files
+ Tabix indexes files where some columns indicate sequence coordinates: name
+ (usually a chromosme), start and stop. The input data file must be position
+ sorted and compressed by bgzip (provided in this package), which has a gzip
+ like interface. After indexing, tabix is able to quickly retrieve data lines by
+ chromosomal coordinates. Fast data retrieval also works over network if an URI
+ is given as a file name.