On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:55:48PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I'm not the bug reporter, but... > > On 2009-01-11 20:21:59 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > % dpkg -S /usr/bin/basename > > coreutils: /usr/bin/basename > > This may be a bit more complex when the file is a symlink to an > alternative. Concerning the man pages, packages sometimes install > symlinks, and it isn't always easy to find what package installed > them,
$ readlink -f `which vi` /usr/bin/vim.gtk $ dpkg -S $(readlink -f `which vi`) vim-gtk: /usr/bin/vim.gtk > in particular when they became dangling symlinks due to some bug. If the man page is a dandling link, trying to read it won't buy you anything. So adding the information in the man page itself wouldn't have helped there. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
