On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:29:24 -0500, Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thus spake Leif B. Kristensen: >> However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name >> such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't >> the original module name be referred to on the package page? > >http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names > >> Secondly, what is the easiest way to obtain documentation on any package >> residing on packages.debian.org? The abovementioned url was certainly >> not very helpful with a link to the plain old documentation. In this >> example, just a link to >> http://search.cpan.org/author/JANPAZ/DBD-XBase-0.234/lib/XBase.pm would >> have gone a long way. Ideally, any documentation following the original >> package should be directly accessible from packages.debian.org. > >Install the package and read the documentation. Ahem. So, in order to find one package of interest, I should install a random number of packages and read the documentation afterwards? Or, maybe I could run an apt-get install * and be finished with it once and for all? Thank you for a really imaginative suggestion. regards, -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ mail to leif at solumslekt dot org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
