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Re: PROPOSAL: complete list of documentation files, "man <packagename>", all man pages refer to said doc list in "See Also" section



On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:14:55PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > I had thought of that one, and I agree with your evaluation of its
> > significance.  You see, dpkg -l gives 14 columns of package name in an
> > 80-column terminal, so you would see:
> > 
> > debian-doc
> > debian-packagi
> > debian-policy
> > debian-newmain
> > debian-develop
> > 
> > The only one which would be a problem is debian-developers-reference.
> > Maybe debian-devel-reference, chopped to debian-devel-r by dpkg -l?
> 
> How about:
> 
>                          12345678901234
> deb-docs             ->  deb-docs           
> deb-packaging        ->  deb-packaging      
> deb-policy           ->  deb-policy         
> deb-newmaintaibner   ->  deb-newmaintai
> deb-devel-reference  ->  deb-devel-refe

No debian packages currently begin with 'deb-'; let's not introduce a
new prefix.

   Julian

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