On 04/10/2013 10:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: >> Often the info-pages do not give any additional details (I have just >> verified this for "dpkg-scanpackages" where both info and manpage seemed >> equal after a quick glance). > > Uhm... Are you sure you were looking at info pages? AFAIK the > dpkg-dev package which includes dpkg-scanpackages does not provide any > info pages. It only provides man pages. I think you must have been > looking at the man page in the info viewer which falls back to man > pages if no info pages are present.
You are right, I have just checked it again and saw a line stating "--Info: (*manpages*)dpkg-scanpackages, 87 lines --Top--". I did not know that info silently falls back to manpages if no info pages are available. > I think this entire subthread talking about info pages is a red > herring and off the scent of looking for dpkg-scanpackages > documentation. > > Bob -- http://masysma.ohost.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5166cc10.9000...@web.de
