On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> dpkg-scanpackages binarydir overridefile [pathprefix] >
> Packages
>
> binarydir is the name of the binary tree to process (for
> example, contrib/binary-i386). It is best to make this
> relative to the root of the Debian archive, because every
> Filename field in the new Packages file will start with
> this string.
>
> At the very least, this needs a little clarification. What is the
> "root of the Debian archive"? I assumed it was
> foobar/dists/{frozen,stable,whatever}, and it was a natural assumption
> because it corresponded to the example given. Now we know I was
> wrong, foobar is the "root". But I would never know just from the
> manpage.
When that man page was written its example would have made sense, the
structure of the archive has simply changed over time and nobody has
updated it.
Jason
