On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:51:48AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> The upstream package for libid3-3.8.3 contains many utilities:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4622 2006-07-06 18:16 id3convert
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4596 2006-07-06 18:16 id3cp
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4604 2006-07-06 18:16 id3info
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4598 2006-07-06 18:16 id3tag

They are in libid3-3.8.3-dev. They've been in the -dev package for at least
the last four years (since libid3 3.8.0).

> The debian/changelog does not mention what happened then and the last
> recorded in debian/changelog reads:
> 
> id3lib (3.7.13-5) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Fixed typo in id3tag manpage

You're probably looking at the wrong changelog - the "id3lib" package is
obsolete.

> SUGGESTION
> 
> Please add a paragraph to debian/README.DEbian to explain the differences
> to the upstream source package and explain in which package the utlilities 
> are now part of.

Don't most Debian users just search using the Contents file or
http://packages.debian.org to find which package contains a binary?

I think I'll add the utility names to the -dev package's description,
though, so that 'apt-cache search' finds it too.
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