Re: Planning to split doc-rfc
cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote on 27.02.01 in <E14Xk0t-00024P-00@riva.ucam.org>:
> Ages ago I meant to propose a policy amendment that reserved all-caps
> directories in /usr/share/doc for major documentation packages like the
> RFCs and the HOWTOs, to get away from the (IMHO) ugly
> /usr/share/doc/doc-rfc directory for this sort of thing. The package
> name in itself doesn't bother me so much.
As this has been discussed before, I'm going to just go and put the RFCs
somewhere below /usr/share/doc/RFC.
RFC statitics:
4 - (old std)
27 - (old draft std)
37 fyi
39 - (old exp)
44 - (old hist)
47 bcp
65 draft std
69 hist
69 never
71 std
146 - (old prop std)
148 exp
596 prop std
797 - (old inf)
931 - (old unclass)
NOTE: quite a number of old RFCs are not currently online, and therefore
will not be in any collection even if they would belong. The first RFCs
were actually done on paper and sent out via a postal mail mailing list!
The current stuff will go into
doc-rfc-fyi-bcp (both FYIs and BCPs, still only 84)
doc-rfc-std (includes draft, 136)
doc-rfc-experimental
doc-rfc-std-proposed
except that historic and some selected RFCs (for example, those
specifically requested but not under current stuff) will go into
doc-rfc-misc
This will also get those RFC drafts that are in the RFC editor's queue
(that is, will be published soon).
Old standards track RFCs (std, draft, prop) will go into
doc-rfc-old-std (makes 177)
It does not seem useful to differentiate among the rest, so it will go
into
doc-rfc-500-999
or similar packets (whatever size seems to make the most sense).
All packages will depend on doc-rfc-std, which will have indices and
stuff. And an empty compat package
doc-rfc
will probably depend on
doc-rfc-std
doc-rfc-std-proposed
doc-rfc-fyi-bcp
doc-rfc-misc
doc-rfc-old-std
- this seems the closest match to what the old doc-rfc did. (And oh boy,
were the old lists buggy! 20 mis-sorted RFCs found by a diff.)
That's 6 selected packets plus "the rest" (maybe four more, at prio
extra). If people think this is far too much, shout NOW.
Also, this means that _all_ RFCs are available; the old package had about
1/3.
MfG Kai
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