Re: debian manuals

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:45:33AM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> 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?

According to spec, it it's in /usr/share it should be independent of 
platform.

-- hendrik