Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy
[ CC'ed to Christian for policy question, and to Manoj for VM example. ]
Marco> Ask the users! The most people hate the info format and it's
Marco> browsers. We should include the HTML documentation in the package.
But they get html via the dwww package! Which gives them _more_ documentation
then there is in html only.
Scott> I'm sure I'd rather have info than HTML. Info browses nicely,
Scott> especially now that we have info patched for cursor key navigation.
Scott> HTML is larger and more cumbersome.
Seconded. Nobody answered my mail from yesterday which showed that the
doc-linux package will take up over 5 MB (instead of 1.6 MB) for the html
stuff.
Santiago> IMHO we should not drop .info from the main package, or we would
Santiago> have
Marco> I think, we should ;-).
No way. IMHO, we should add a Policy Guideline stating that html should be in
a seperate package [1] and that info should be shipped as usual. I for one
consider it a misfeature that the vm package dropped the .info for the .html.
Make it an option to add html docs, but don't make it compulsory.
[1] Unless there is very little html doc in which case we don't have to split
that package
Marco> The HTML format is more flexible and the output looks much
Marco> better. All package maintainer's should convert the documentation
Marco> from LaTeX oder Texinfo to HTML.
Scott> Okay, show me how to search a HTML version of the bash info
Scott> documentation for a concept and I'll believe you.
Couldn't agree more.
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