A reply to just one point, with more later...
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:19:38 +0200
Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dpkg -S $(man -w <man-page-name>)
>
> might be useful here, in order to determine that upstream package.
>From 2006, a related BTS thread, thankyougoogle:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358102
Rerunning its code in 2007:
# approximate man page count of my system's debian packages (no
symlinks)
% for f in `dglob | sort`; do b=`dlocate -L $f | grep ".*man/man.*.gz"
| while read x ; do file $x | grep --invert-match '.*symbolic.*' | grep
--invert-match directory ; done | wc -l`; [ "$b" ] && [ "$b" -gt 0 ] && printf
"%6s %s\n" $b $f ; done > /tmp/mancount.txt
# a few minutes later...
% sort -bg /tmp/mancount.txt | tail | tac
687 manpages-dev
611 libx11-dev
491 perl-doc
230 netpbm
146 libsvga1-dev
145 libintl-perl
141 xscreensaver
136 pdl
129 libfontconfig1-dev
128 manpages
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