Re: tar files in example dirs
> I would have liked to reply him:
>
> "Doing a grep dj on the file Contents that is on the ftp site
> or your CD you can discover that package magicfilter installs
> a file /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/examples/dj550c-filter",
>
> but I couldn't say that because that file is in a tarball and doesn't
> show in the Contents file or using dpkg -S .
>
> Could this be a good reason to force maintainers untar them?
Force: no, s/he is a volunteer.
But yes, this would, IMHO, a good reason to ask him to untar it.
But then, I don't know his/her opinion on those example files,
maybe he's got a good reason to put them together in a .tar.gz
file.
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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