On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > If it sees what looks like a Debian mirror of some kind (possibly in a > `debian' subdirectory) and has `stable' and `development' > subdirectories it will offer the user the choice between the stable > tree and the development one, rather than requiring them to specify > the pathname themselves. (The user will still be able to specify a > different pathname if they want to.) > [...] > So, in summary, the script will look for trees named > stable > development > contrib > non-free > and in each tree will it look for > binary > and > binary/Packages > or > binary/Packages.gz > > It will look for these trees in the root of the installation > filesystem, or in a subdirectory `debian' of that filesystem.
"it" is dselect, right? Unless I misunderstand, that's what it looks like to the user. Could we have a dselect(1) or dsleect(8) man page which explains such things as this, or points the user to another man page which explains them?
