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Re: our broken man package



On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:00:19AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > On the other hand, we might want to copy the OpenBSD version instead
> > of maintaining our own man. But I leave that to whoever maintains the
> > packages.
> 
> We have alternatives on almost everything but dpkg and man. If someone
> thinks it's worth the effort to make alternatives for these they
> should do it. If there is a general agreement that the alternatives is
> better than the original packages we just switch prioryties.
> 
> So simple is that.

Well, I'll take a look at as many of these issues as I can this weekend,
when I re-package groff and man-db.

I've got some time on my hands; thanks to "testing", it will be almost
another week before XFree86 4.x gets in there.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson             |    Software engineering: that part of
Debian GNU/Linux                |    computer science which is too difficult
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