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Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add "specs" documentation



On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> A friend of mine told me about the xspecs package. I can tell I would
> have never been able to find that by doing apt-file search Xaw and
> suchs, since the file I was looking for is called widgets.ps...
> 
> He also told me that you wouldn't consider distributing specs files
> in corresponding -dev packages... That would help a lot, to my mind,
> but you're the maintainer, and I agree that this documentation is
> quite big for so installed a package.
> 
> But at least those -dev packages should include some
> /usr/share/doc/package/README.Debian that tells that full documentation
> can be found in the xspecs package and give the precise file name in
> /usr/share/doc/xspecs (I wouldn't have found "widget.ps" by myself
> while looking for libXaw...), and add Suggest: xspecs to the control.

This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o
and X.Org have lots of bandwidth.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                                <daniels@debian.org>
Debian: the universal operating system                     http://www.debian.org

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