Re: Bug#511522: general: Man pages should say what package a program belongs to
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I'm not the bug reporter, but...
>
> On 2009-01-11 20:21:59 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > % dpkg -S /usr/bin/basename
> > coreutils: /usr/bin/basename
>
> This may be a bit more complex when the file is a symlink to an
> alternative. Concerning the man pages, packages sometimes install
> symlinks, and it isn't always easy to find what package installed
> them,
$ readlink -f `which vi`
/usr/bin/vim.gtk
$ dpkg -S $(readlink -f `which vi`)
vim-gtk: /usr/bin/vim.gtk
> in particular when they became dangling symlinks due to some bug.
If the man page is a dandling link, trying to read it won't buy you
anything. So adding the information in the man page itself wouldn't
have helped there.
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