Re: man page for dpkg

[Alexander S A Kjeldaas <astor@stud.unit.no>]

On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:

> 
> >For some time now, I have wished for a 'man' page for dpkg.
> 
> Odd... dpkg-deb(8) exists on my system.  What release of the manpages
> package do you have?
> 

I think the problem is that most people will try to find the man page for 
dpkg, not dpkg-deb which is something different as seen from the user. 

The man-pages in my dpkg package refer to dpkg(5), dpkg(8), dpkg-dep(8),
dselect(8), deb(5) and deb-control(5). None of the man-pages refer to
dpkg-deb :-).  My dpkg package, however includes the following: 

dpkg version 1.0.6

/usr/man/man5
/usr/man/man5/deb.5
/usr/man/man5/deb-control.5
/usr/man/man8
/usr/man/man8/dpkg-deb.8
/usr/man/man8/install-info.8

Take care,
  astor