reopen 40123 ! thanks On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:05:22 +0100 Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 02 December 2006 00:59, Francesco Poli wrote: > > It's not clear to me how to get the source for the Debian > > Installation Guide. > > For the Sarge version: apt-get source debian-installer > For the Etch version: apt-get source installation-guide > > In both cases you could have found out by looking at the > packages.debian.org website as that lists which source package each > normal package belongs to. > http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/debian-installer-manual > http://packages.debian.org/testing/doc/installation-guide-i386 [...] Apologies for not being clear enough. Let's try to explain things better... The problem is *not* that the source for the stable version of the manual is not distributed: it is, and that's OK. Hence the wishlist severity of the bug. The problem is: figuring out where to get the source by looking at the webpage[1] is not made easy. In that page[1] there are links for a great number of compiled versions of the manual, but no direct link the the source. I searched inside the page and found no hints. I found hints to use the subversion repository elsewhere, tried to dig the WebSVN interface and got lost. Only *then* I remembered that the manual is also packaged and thus found the source tar archive[2]. I could have been smarter in the first place, I admit it's my poor brain's fault, but anyway why not making things easier? I've been using Debian since 2002 and I don't consider myself a totally inexperienced user. Just imagine some casual Gordon Gpllover that knows little about Debian and wants (for reasons unknown) to redistribute a PDF version of the stable Debian installation guide. He does *not* know that the manual is also packaged: he finds the webpage[1] and downloads the PDF. He reads that the guide is under the GNU GPL and thus knows that he must make the source available in order to redistribute it (Gordon knows little about Debian, but is quite familiar with the GNU GPL license!). In this scenario, a little link to the tar archive[2] from the webpage[1] would do the trick and make Gordon's life much easier... I hope I clarified what I meant. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual [2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20050317sarge1.tar.gz -- But it is also tradition that times *must* and always do change, my friend. -- from _Coming to America_ ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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