Re: Description to man pages
* Otto Wyss (otto.wyss@bluewin.ch) wrote :
> Since I hated to start dselect again and again just to read a package
> description I wrote a script "dsc2man" which creates appropriate man
> pages for each package.
>
> To minimize possible conflicts with other names it creates man pages in
> section 6 (games!). Of course this can be configured in the config file.
> I'd rather like to know which is a better place for it.
>
> The script does only create pages if none exists. But for upgrading the
> force switch has to be used, which means any existing page will be
> overwritten.
>
> The script can be down loaded from
> "http://dpartialmirror.sourceforge.net/dsc2man.html";
>
> O. Wyss
>
Is it better than `apt-cache show foo` ?
-Thom
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