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From:
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject:
Re: archivers/bzip3: new port (version 1.4.0)
To:
OpenBSD ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:30:44 +0200

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On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:07:09 +0200,
Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> I don't really like COMMENT but don't have a better idea right away.
>

Original comment was a copy and paste from it's home page. But it can be
reworded to something a bit more netural.

What do you think abot this one?

diff --git archivers/bzip3/Makefile archivers/bzip3/Makefile
index 57916867067..7ba01cb69b7 100644
--- archivers/bzip3/Makefile
+++ archivers/bzip3/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-COMMENT=	a better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2
+COMMENT=	tools and libraries for compressing and decompressing bzip3 files
 
 V=		1.4.0
 DISTNAME=	bzip3-${V}
diff --git archivers/bzip3/pkg/DESCR archivers/bzip3/pkg/DESCR
index 2f724e31661..2a53d435e5e 100644
--- archivers/bzip3/pkg/DESCR
+++ archivers/bzip3/pkg/DESCR
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-A better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. Features
-higher compression ratios and better performance thanks to a order-0
-context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform code
-making use of suffix arrays and a RLE with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass
+These are tools and libraries for compressing, decompressing, printing,
+and searching bzip3 files. bzip3 features higher compression ratios and
+better performance than bzip2 thanks to an order-0 context mixing
+entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform code making use of
+suffix arrays and a run-length encoding with Lempel-Ziv prediction pass
 based on LZ77-style string matching and PPM-style context modeling.
-
-Like its ancestor, BZip3 excels at compressing text or code.

-- 
wbr, Kirill