Re: RFC: upstream-link in the BTS and package descriptions
* Steve Kowalik <stevenk@debian.org> [011021 16:13]:
> Well, if the .deb is installed, it's available in
> /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright. I really don't see any need to have this
> information duplicated in the .deb. The down side is the damn thing has to
> be installed to get to it.
Or just unpacked. Some of the reasons I like the .deb-Format ist that
you can do an simple ar -x *.deb && tar -xvvzf data.tgz filename to get
any file in it without installing it. (Escpecially usefull to
inofficial packages you do not trust. You will want to see the
scripts run as root when installing before installing.)
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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