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Re: Planning to split doc-rfc



On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 10:46:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> nick@debian.org (Nicolás Lichtmaier)  wrote on 25.02.01 in <[🔎] 20010225004815.A31844@debian.org>:
> 
> > > DRAFT STANDARDS    doc-rfc-draft-std
> > > EXPERIMENTAL       doc-rfc-experimental
> > > HISTORIC           doc-rfc-historic
> > > PROPOSED STANDARDS doc-rfc-proposed-std
> > > STANDARDS          doc-rfc-standard
> > > -                  doc-rfc-misc
> > > Comments? Better names? Should there be a dummy doc-rfc package to pull in
> > > the others?
> >
> >  The packaging should be tematic,
> 
> Are *you* going through the ~3000 RFCs and making a list which ones belong  
> to each theme?

Eh?  They are already classified by the RFC editor/IETF.  However, their list
is a little different from the one above.  It goes something like:

- Standards
- Draft Standards
- Proposed Standards
- Experimental
- Informational
	- FYI
	- BCP (Best Current Practice)
- Historic

>From the above, it looks as if "misc" will actually include "informational"
RFCs, so perhaps it should be renamed to reflect that.

> (And what will you do about overlaps? There's a *lot* of that.)
> 
> It's not as if I haven't tried to come up with such a scheme for years.

Overlap should be easily solved with dependencies.  Users may install a subset,
say, BCPs, and the "Informational" package would depend on that one.

-- 
 - mdz



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