Bug#289267: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#289267: [debian-ntp] Bug#289267: ntp: NTP on ifup

[Peter Eisentraut]

Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:27:31PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > You are expected to read the README.Debian file of every package
> > you install.
>
> I hope you're not serious!
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep '\<install$' | wc -l
> 1771
>
> $ find /usr/share/doc -iname '*README.Debian*' | wc -l
> 459
>
> Quite a bit of reading I should be doing. I wonder how many pages
> that is... (unfortunately, wc -l won't say as a lot of it is gzip'd.
> 770K, though).

Well, I think the "note" type in debconf has been deprecated, so I don't 
know what other means there are to convery important information about 
a package.