Re: No information on "os-prober" package available

Richard Owlett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06/08/2020 01:16 AM, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> On 08.06.20 04:40, Detlef Lechner wrote:
>> Hi.
>> I called in Debian stable in Firefox the website
>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=%22os-prober%22&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all&sourceid=mozilla-search
>> and received the ANSWER: "Error. Suchbegriff ungültig oder nicht
>> angegeben."
> 
> How did that URL come about? Did you go to
> https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search for "os-prober"?
> Thing is the search engine doesn't like those double quotes.
> *t
>

But there is a documentation problem.

https://dyn.manpages.debian.org/jump?q=os-prober responds
> Manpage not found
> Sorry, the manpage “os-prober” was not found! Did you spell it correctly? 

Also the lists of files at https://packages.debian.org/buster/os-prober
shows no /user/share/doc/ files for i386, but they do exist for amd64.
{of course my primary machine runs i386 ;}
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