Re: doc-base: next proposal for doc policy
>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
Christian> - opt. ask the user at installation time if
Christian> he/she wants to compress all HTML docs (he/she can do
[...]
Christian> created .html.gz files will be removed in the postinst
Christian> script, automatically.)
Yes.
Christian> - opt. remove all INFO docs /usr/info/*, if the
Christian> user doesn't want to have these
Ok.
Christian> - opt. remove all INFO-converted HTML docs
Christian> /usr/doc/*/html-info/*, if the user doesn't want to
Christian> have these
Yes.
Christian> - the three options above will be asked in the
Christian> postinst script, unless they are predefined in some
Christian> /etc/doc.conf configuration file
Great.
Christian> In addition, the doc-base package will include a
Christian> (short) description of the ideas behind the "Debian
Christian> Documentation Policy" (the results of this discussion),
Christian> as well as a description of how to fine-tune his/her
Christian> web browsers/servers to serve .html.gz files, etc.
Of course.
Christian> All GNU texinfo manuals, as well as all other formats
Christian> that can be converted into PostScript files, should be
[...]
Christian> individually, or all together, read them online, etc.
Good idea.
Christian> Any comments? (I'm sure ;-)
I think that Apache, with a "/usr/doc/.htaccess" exploiting
mod_rewrite and mod_handler running from `inetd' could be put to good
use. We could have compressed .html uncompressed as it is served, and
the rewriting can handle the mapping of .html to .html.gz or
http://www.debian.org/(multiplex like cpan does?)/doc/blah.html
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