This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of Raphael Manfredi's dist program. This version of dist was put together by Manoj Srivastava , from the sources distributed directly by the author, Raphael Manfredi . The changes in this package are essentially the addition of support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding various debian.* files. The changes in the default configuration are using the pager /bin/more, and using /usr/bin/ae as the default editor, since these programs are guaranteed to be present in any debian system. The other changes are to ensure that a .config directory is present, so that no mail message is sent to the maintainer while building the debian package. An over- ride file is also used to ensure that installation occurs into a local debian-tmp directory, required to build the debianized version. See the README file for more information arch-tag: 29b82916-9188-446f-aa1c-b0cf69566464