>Well, in that case "apt-cache show dpkg-www" >will do the trick as shown here: I must admit that in the extent of information this is not worse.
>What objection is there for that? It's just a kind of prefering the one and not the other way. For myself, in _this_ case, commandline is the more circuitous solution. As synaptic requires root-privileges, I would not really get happy with it, but dpkg-www seems to be a quite interesting alternative. Altough, I'm still interested in the database of packages.debian.org Is there any suggestion on how to find? Or a reason, not to do it (it might be very large or restricted)? jfr
