Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

[Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com>]

Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com> writes:
> 
> For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at
> doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive!
> 
> The file is about 12KB.
> 
> http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el
> 

Ditto.  Some of these dpkg docs are html; if you have w3, when you
deb-view one of these docs you can 'w3-preview-this buffer' to display
it right.  It can't follow the links (hmm...that'd have to be pretty
abstract) so view each file separately, if that's comfy for you.  

(Unsolicited deb-view ramble: I find it particularly valuable, since I
used to 'dpkg -x' deb-files all the time to check stuff out, and often I
was root.  Cleaning up from that, I'd always 'rm -r usr/' in the
unpacking workspace, and then gasp, realizing I'd been one character
away from the apocalypse :-)

Thanks again, Rick.

-- 

Ed Donovan			edonovan@world.std.com