On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Steve Greenland wrote: > A standalone .deb w/o a Package file doesn't integrate into apt or > dselect, so there's no where to show the descriptions. The only reason > one would have an interest in such a .deb is that one already has a > pretty good idea of what it is, presumably from an accompaning README, > or the webpage with a link, or somesuch. I doubt very many people go > around browsing random .debs with 'dpkg-deb -I'.
Packages files are produced from the contents of .debs.
