On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:46:05PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > When I do that I go to the package page and it gives me > > a list of dependencies and where to download the package. > > I don't know what page he looked at, but the package pages such as e.g. > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/dpkg.html > > display the full description, along with the short one. > Exactly. If the description doesn't give enough usefule information, then a bug should be filed against the package. Ripping packages apart to grab arbitrary files(*) is out of the question, IMO.
(*)I don't consider the copyright or changelogs to be arbitrary files. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
