Missing information on pages below http://packages.debian.org
I use http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/logtool and
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/debconf as examples.
I am new to *nix generally and Debian in particular though
I've been a computer user since the early 60's.
Linux encourages the user to know what goes on "under the
hood". Several times on debian-user@lists.debian.org I've
been pointed to pages under this hierarchy. The results have
been uniformly unsatisfying.
I think this could be remedied in part by a link to a more
verbose description of the package. A link to the
developer's home page my be satisfactory as is done for
http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/logtool. I think
more generally a link to the manpage at
http://manpages.debian.net/ should be a minimal standard. In
the first example I found the developer's page to whet my
interest but not answer all my questions. In the second it
was going to the "see also" links of the manpage was the
most valuable.
Thank you.
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