Bug#51116: Suggestion: Packages should carry a manpage

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Chris Waters wrote:
> I think people are becoming too ready to propose grand, sweeping
> changes to policy in order to fix obscure, minor problems.

I agree.

> If you *really* want something in policy, I'd suggest: "the package
> description should list the binaries (or at least, the main binary) if
> it doesn't match the package name."  Then, you can use dpkg --info.

Yuck. Package descriptions shouldn't become dumping grounds for every peice
of information about a package. The sole purpose of a package description is
to let you decide if you should install/remove a package.

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