On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:56:03PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one source > file > which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = "dev files for libfoo", > libfoo-doc = "documention for libfoo", and libfoo = "runtime files for foo > library", without bothering to describe what "foo" actually is. > > well, duh! like nobody would ever guess that a package called libfoo-doc was > the documentation for libfoo. tell the reader something we DON'T know.
But he knows what libfoo is - or at least he is just a
$ apt-cache show libfoo
away from that information. Do we need to duplicate the description of a
library package in each and every supporting package?
Greetings
Torsten
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