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Canonical: Will fundamentally improve the documentation of Ubuntu and other software products
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I had a look at the Ubuntu (deb) packaging docs for a project recently and they're in a shocking state. They rely on tools and commands that have been removed from their respective projects (e.g. bzr/brz deb helper functionality), and to get around that suggest firing up a 5 year old version of Ubuntu in a container.