The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.bugs as well.
On the apt.conf man page, it was not the // mistake that stopped
emacs' ffap from finding the file. It was the dash stuff:
In general the sample configuration file in /usr/share/doc/apt//exam-
ples/apt.conf /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz is a good
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