Re: RFD: new optional field for 'control'
> From: jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen)
> Subject: RFD: new optional field for 'control'
>
> Hi.
>
> At Bruce's request I'm developing a HTML interface to the FTP site
> (experimental pages are accessible at http://www.debian.org/FTP/).
>
> During this development, we found that a 'html-description' (or suchlike)
> field for 'control' would be useful.
> This could be used to enhance the description with pointers to
> documentation.
>
> Opinions on this are welcome.
o) This sounds like a really nice idea.
o) This MUST NOT be allowed to slow down the progress on dpkg & dselect
(which I understand to be the final necessary pieces of a real Debian
distribution). In other words, whatever is done on this topic should
not require much (if any) of Ian Jackson's time.
o) Eventually, we should build this information into the .deb file so as
to avoid a proliferation of files. As a first step, we should just
use separate files, so as to avoid delaying Ian J's release of dpkg
and dselect.
o) Perhaps the eventual standard should be to store these html documents
on the individual Debian system so as to allow local browsing of this
information. We should provide a system-specific flag to indicate if
we want these files installed locally.
o) As much as possible, the links between the Debian html documents
should be relative, so that they can be installed on non-networked
systems.
o) Standard links for each page might be to: documentation, copyright
notices, maintainers' home pages, form-based bug reporting mechanism.
> Ray
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