Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 23 Aug 1996, Ed Donovan wrote: > Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at > > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive! > > > > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el > > D

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Ed Donovan
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive! > > The file is about 12KB. > > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el > Ditto. Some of thes

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Guy Maor wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > > > Is there a postscript version of the documents > > Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/ > you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript. > > Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > Is there a postscript version of the documents Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/ you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript. Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents which do *NOT* reflect current p

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-23 Thread Shaya Potter
Is there a postscript version of the documents. Thanks, Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all > > prospective Debian developers to read. >

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
Bruce Perens wrote: > > There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all > prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package, > Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might > not want to install it. > However, it's worth unpacking the > package

Re: new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all > prospective Debian developers to read. The documentation is also available at: http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/policy.html/ http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/programmer.html/ Note the t

new documentation on how to develop Debian packages available

1996-08-22 Thread Bruce Perens
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all prospective Debian developers to read. It's in the dpkg_1.3.6 package, which you can find in the project/experimental directory on our FTP archives. Since this is unreleased developmental software, you might not want to install it (o