> I would have liked to reply him: > > "Doing a grep dj on the file Contents that is on the ftp site > or your CD you can discover that package magicfilter installs > a file /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/examples/dj550c-filter", > > but I couldn't say that because that file is in a tarball and doesn't > show in the Contents file or using dpkg -S . > > Could this be a good reason to force maintainers untar them?
Force: no, s/he is a volunteer. But yes, this would, IMHO, a good reason to ask him to untar it. But then, I don't know his/her opinion on those example files, maybe he's got a good reason to put them together in a .tar.gz file. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/