On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:45:52PM -0500, Chris Hanson wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has done any more work on the doc-base policy > proposal from this old thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg00975.html Yes, doc-base seems to have stalled (no version change since woody). Adam might be a bit busy (since there are bugs opened for quite some time regarding doc-base). > > The reason I care about this is that I'd like to close the following > related bug reports: 115450 115451 115452 115453. Closing them > requires getting three different maintainers to agree on the > appropriate classification, and it seems to me that this is pretty > arbitrary in the absence of a policy. Yes, it seems there is no appropiate policy relating to doc-base/doc-central et al. This might need to be addressed on the Debian Documentation Policy, currently in draft development [1], the Policy Manual documentation chapter [2] does not get into detail. > > I like some of the proposed changes suggested in the thread, but I > don't see any evidence that anything was ever done about them. Any > news? > Not that I know of (I remember slightly the thread), I'm going to donwload it fully, and see if I can write done a proper sub-policy to close the first TODO item in doc-base's documentation. > Please include me in any replies as I'm not subscribed to the list. > > Done :) Javi [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ddp-policy/ddp-policy.en.html [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html
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