From: Mathieu Baudier <redacted>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:16:31 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Improve Debian packaging documentation
X-Git-Url: https://git.djapps.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3d5c1cadb09d1ecbd61a574b3f7661c604882fc9;p=pkg%2Fggml%2Fsources%2Fllama.cpp

Improve Debian packaging documentation
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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ed76d2eb..4602b51f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,16 +24,17 @@ Description: Inference of large language models in pure C/C++ (shared library)
  llama.cpp leverages the ggml tensor library in order to run
  large language models (LLMs) provided in the GGUF file format.
 
+# We only distribute a few very useful tools, with stable CLI options
 Package: llama-cpp-tools
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends},
  libllama0, ggml, curl
 Description: Inference of large language models in pure C/C++ (tools)
- llama-cli: utility tool wrapping most features provided by libllama.
+ llama-cli: versatile tool wrapping most features provided by libllama.
  It typically allows one to run one-shot prompts or to "chat"
  with a large language model.
  .
- llama-quantize: utility tool to "quantize" a large language model
+ llama-quantize: utility to "quantize" a large language model
  GGUF file. Quantizing is the process of reducing the precision of
  the underlying neural-network at  aminimal cost to its accuracy.
  .
diff --git a/debian/not-installed b/debian/not-installed
index e03f0328..c02e7add 100644
--- a/debian/not-installed
+++ b/debian/not-installed
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+# Most executables produced are not stable enough to be distributed
 /usr/bin/llama-*
 /usr/libexec/*/ggml/llama-*
 
+# Python is not supported
+/usr/bin/*.py
+
+# Test executables are not distributed
 /usr/bin/test-*
 
-/usr/bin/*.py