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Bug#51262: Suggestion: Packages should carry a manpage



On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 10:17:43PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
> > My suggestion is now, that "man pccts" should either point to the
> > main binaries manpage or show a page that gives a one-line description
> > of the binaries of the package or one that has just relevant "see
> > also: xxx" entries.
> While I agree that it is probably a good idea for large packages, with
> many binaries, to provide such a man page (in section 7, of course), it
> makes no sense for packages in general. 

What's wrong with using README.Debian for this purpose, which is already
in common use?

Cheers,
aj

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        results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.''
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