Updated the README file. It had lots of out-of-date and incorrect information
in it, much of it from 1.0.X days. Did it in such a way that if it doesn't get
touched (and it undoubtedly won't) it won't really go out of date, eg. by
removing temporary details like version numbers, dates, details of specific
software incompatibilities. It's much better to be vague but correct, than
precise but incorrect; having incorrect info in a file as important as the
README is bad. Also removed the README_KDE3_FOLKS file because it's pretty
redundant now. Also added some changes that had been made in the stable branch
but not the HEAD.
Did similar, but smaller changes to README_DEVELOPERS and README_PACKAGERS.
Also updated the valgrind.spec.in file to use the new, post-1.0.X description
in the README.
Also fixed a minor omission in Addrcheck's docs.
MERGE TO STABLE
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@2089 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
diff --git a/valgrind.spec.in b/valgrind.spec.in
index 12bd3c2..91f2307 100644
--- a/valgrind.spec.in
+++ b/valgrind.spec.in
@@ -11,20 +11,15 @@
%description
-Valgrind is a GPL'd tool to help you find memory-management problems
-in your programs. When a program is run under Valgrind's supervision,
-all reads and writes of memory are checked, and calls to
-malloc/new/free/delete are intercepted. As a result, Valgrind can
-detect problems such as:
+Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling x86-Linux programs.
+With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect
+many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating
+bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform
+detailed profiling to help speed up your programs.
-- Use of uninitialised memory
-- Reading/writing memory after it has been free'd
-- Reading/writing off the end of malloc'd blocks
-- Reading/writing inappropriate areas on the stack
-- Memory leaks -- where pointers to malloc'd blocks are lost forever
-- Passing of uninitialised and/or unaddressible memory to system calls
-- Mismatched use of malloc/new/new [] vs free/delete/delete []
-- Some abuses of the POSIX Pthreads API
+The Valgrind distribution includes four tools: two memory error
+detectors, a thread error detector, and a cache profiler. Several other
+tools have been built with Valgrind.
%prep
%setup -n @PACKAGE@-@VERSION@