Hello Guillem,
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The information about man pages from other packages on Debian-based
> systems on [0] could see some updates:
>
> * Instead of using the available db (dpkg -p), recommend using the
> status db (the installed packages) with something like this instead:
>
> $ dpkg-query -f '${Maintainer}\n' -W mount
>
> * The upstream maintainer is usually found in the copyright file:
>
> /usr/share/doc/<pkgname>/copyright
>
> although some times only the copyright holders are found there,
> otherwise the second best candidate might be the upstream
> changelog, found at:
>
> /usr/share/doc/<pkgname>/changelog.gz
>
> regards,
> guillem
>
> [0] <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man_pages_other.html>
So, looking on an Ubuntu system, I see
$ dpkg-query -f '${Maintainer}\n' -W mount
Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Which is a little less informative than:
$ dpkg -p mount | grep Maintainer
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Original-Maintainer: LaMont Jones <lamont@xxxxxxxxxx>
I don't have a Debian system handy. Looking at
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man_pages_other.html, could you show
the complete commands plus output as you would expect to do it on your
system.
Thanks,
Michael
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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