Improve wording for package descriptions

     * This matchs the description of the ITP

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@@ -19,18 +19,29 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, dkms (>> 2.1.1.2-5ubuntu1), lsb-release
 Recommends: spl
 Description: Solaris Porting Layer kernel modules for Linux
- The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of
- the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris
- kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification.
+ The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
+ many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to
+ run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
+ modification.
  .
- The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel module which provides
- a testing harness for the SPL module.
+ This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos
+ (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don't want the
+ overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives
+ to Linux primitives.
+ .
+ This package contains the source code for the SPL and SPLAT Linux kernel
+ modules, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel modules are
+ automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages are
+ upgraded.
+ .
+ The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel module which
+ provides a testing harness for the SPL module.
 
 Package: spl
 Architecture: any
 Conflicts: spl-dev
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: spl-dkms
-Description: Solaris Porting Layer utilities for Linux
- This package provides the userspace utilities for the SPL and SPLAT Linux
- kernel modules.
+Description: Solaris Porting Layer user-space utilities for Linux
+ This package includes the user space utilities needed to test and debug the
+ SPL and SPLAT kernel modules.