Read Description from dpkg status files

syft/pkg/cataloger/deb/cataloger_test.go

@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ func TestDpkgCataloger(t *testing.T) {
 						Architecture:  "all",
 						Maintainer:    "Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>",
 						InstalledSize: 1016,
+						Description: `Runtime support for the PAM library
+ Contains configuration files and  directories required for
+ authentication  to work on Debian systems.  This package is required
+ on almost all installations.`,
 						Files: []pkg.DpkgFileRecord{
 							{
 								Path: "/etc/pam.conf",

syft/pkg/cataloger/deb/parse_dpkg_status_test.go

@@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ func TestSinglePackage(t *testing.T) {
 				Architecture:  "amd64",
 				InstalledSize: 4064,
 				Maintainer:    "APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>",
+				Description: `commandline package manager
+ This package provides commandline tools for searching and
+ managing as well as querying information about packages
+ as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
+ .
+ These include:
+ * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
+ from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
+ removal of packages together with their dependencies
+ * apt-cache for querying available information about installed
+ as well as installable packages
+ * apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
+ * apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
+ * apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys`,
 				Files: []pkg.DpkgFileRecord{
 					{
 						Path: "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove",
@@ -85,6 +99,20 @@ func TestSinglePackage(t *testing.T) {
 				Architecture:  "amd64",
 				InstalledSize: 4000,
 				Maintainer:    "APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>",
+				Description: `commandline package manager
+ This package provides commandline tools for searching and
+ managing as well as querying information about packages
+ as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.
+ .
+ These include:
+ * apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them
+ from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and
+ removal of packages together with their dependencies
+ * apt-cache for querying available information about installed
+ as well as installable packages
+ * apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages
+ * apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings
+ * apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys`,
 			},
 		}}
 
@@ -132,14 +160,26 @@ func TestMultiplePackages(t *testing.T) {
 					Architecture:  "all",
 					InstalledSize: 3036,
 					Maintainer:    "GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>",
-					Files:         []pkg.DpkgFileRecord{},
+					Description: `time zone and daylight-saving time data
+ This package contains data required for the implementation of
+ standard local time for many representative locations around the
+ globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by
+ political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and
+ daylight-saving rules.`,
+					Files: []pkg.DpkgFileRecord{},
 				},
 				{
 					Package:       "util-linux",
 					Version:       "2.33.1-0.1",
 					Architecture:  "amd64",
 					InstalledSize: 4327,
 					Maintainer:    "LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>",
+					Description: `miscellaneous system utilities
+ This package contains a number of important utilities, most of which
+ are oriented towards maintenance of your system. Some of the more
+ important utilities included in this package allow you to view kernel
+ messages, create new filesystems, view block device information,
+ interface with real time clock, etc.`,
 					Files: []pkg.DpkgFileRecord{
 						{
 							Path: "/etc/default/hwclock",

syft/pkg/dpkg_metadata.go

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ type DpkgMetadata struct {
 	Architecture  string           `mapstructure:"Architecture" json:"architecture"`
 	Maintainer    string           `mapstructure:"Maintainer" json:"maintainer"`
 	InstalledSize int              `mapstructure:"InstalledSize" json:"installedSize" cyclonedx:"installedSize"`
+	Description   string           `mapstructure:"Description" hash:"ignore" json:"-"`
 	Files         []DpkgFileRecord `json:"files"`
 }