Re: Bug#39463,#39482,#39493: timidity, cdrdao, cdtool has no manpage for something

["Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org>]

***** JL => Jim Lynch

JL> Still, I think that each package should maybe have a manifest
JL> installed as documentation, either as a file in
JL> /usr/doc/package/MANIFEST, in each man page, or howbout this:
JL> BOTH. This includes: files the package installed, and to a limited
JL> degree, files it's possible for the package to create. (obviously,
JL> to try this for fileutils' cat in its "cat > whatever" form would
JL> be a lot of work...)

Then you may want to try this one-liner:
>--------------------------------------------------------------------<
for i in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list; do j=${i%.list} && \
ln -s $i /usr/doc/${j#/var/lib/dpkg/info/}/MANIFEST; done
>--------------------------------------------------------------------<
unless you're short of inodes, of course. ;-)

Cheers,

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