Re: FWD: packages
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:46:05PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > When I do that I go to the package page and it gives me
> > a list of dependencies and where to download the package.
>
> I don't know what page he looked at, but the package pages such as e.g.
>
> http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/dpkg.html
>
> display the full description, along with the short one.
>
Exactly. If the description doesn't give enough usefule information,
then a bug should be filed against the package. Ripping packages
apart to grab arbitrary files(*) is out of the question, IMO.
(*)I don't consider the copyright or changelogs to be arbitrary files.
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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