give the mingw32 package a self-contained description

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a180fbb85ea51f8cc4cb2c36c86443b884c69a9f..a2ae8c83903203430a8022c283ca73fc06362eb5 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -28,5 +28,10 @@ Architecture: all
 Priority: optional
 Suggests: wine
 Description: GNU compression utility (win32 build)
+ This package provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which
+ are also the default compression tools for Debian.  They typically operate
+ on files with names ending in '.gz', but can also decompress files ending
+ in '.Z' created with 'compress'.
+ .
  This is a win32 version of gzip, meant to be used by the win32-loader
  component of Debian-Installer.