Hi, 1. I was wondering about the presence of the /etc/.pwd.lock file on my system. For sure 'apt-file search /etc/.pwd.lock' is no help, but 'man -K .pwd.lock' do. I also searched the Debian user mailing list and found some relevant discussion on this file. Querying the Debian Code Search was also very interesting.
Could there be a Debian web page to handle some sort of global search? I think this could be useful also for beginner not familiar with the diversity of Debian services, no? It will be for instance client to Debian Packages Search, Debian Manpages and Code Search, (also Debian Wiki?) that would provide at least links if topics are found in each of them. May be user would be able to select their targets. 2. After this I was curious about the overall content of all the packages on any dot files (including directories). For that I used the following to 2 commands: # the packages concerned apt-file --filter-origins Debian --regex search '/\.' | cut -d ':' -f 1 | uniq -c | sort -h # the top 10 of dot files apt-file --filter-origins Debian --regex search '/\.' | cut -d ':' -f 2 | grep -o '/\..*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rh | head -10 They are very diverse and include some .git* ones. Are they always useful to provide? Is this something related to the Debian Policy? tracked by Debian Maintainer and/or in the scope of some QA tools? My opinion (as a sysadmin) is that I am not a big fan of dot files and moreover when they are not intended to be reserved (better restricted?) to the userland. Cheers, Patrice
