Re: debian manuals

["Lukasz Szybalski" <szybalski@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2007 at 8:15 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:22:58PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>  > Am 2007-07-30 17:53:47, schrieb Lukasz Szybalski:
>  > > Hello,
>  > > If I wanted to get a file that is listed in contents-i386.gz:
>  > >
>  > > Example:
>  > > usr/share/doc/ant/README.Debian                    devel/ant
>  > >
>  > > How would I do it?
>  > > Where would I get it from?
>  > >
>  > > 1 Get it from http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant ?
>  > > 1b. What is the package name for stable that corresponds to devel/ant =
>  > > ant***.deb?
>  > > wget http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant**????.deb
>  >
>  > ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
>  > devel:/# apt-cache policy ant
>  > ant:
>  >   Installed: (none)
>  >   Candidate: 1.6.5-5
>  >   Version table:
>  >      1.6.5-5 0
>  >        1000 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
>  > devel:/# wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/ant/ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb
>  > ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
>  >
>  > And then use "mc" to extract it without installing
>
>  You may save few typing by using dget instead of wget :-)
>


Does README.Debian in each package depends on a platform? Is it the
same in i386 as it is in amd64?

Lucas