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Re: internationalisation/skeleton was Re: another user manual chapter



On 28 Dec 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote:

> Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo.van.rangelrooij@tip.nl> writes:
> 
> > Christian Leutloff <leutloff@sundancer.oche.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo.van.rangelrooij@tip.nl> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Note that there will be two documentation policies: one for Debian
> > > > documantation itself and one for the DDP.
> > > 
> > > Where's the difference!?
> > 
> > Well, if I understand things correctly (Christian S.: please correct
> > me if I'm wrong), the first one is about which types of documentation
> > we have within Debian, where they should be stored, the preferred
> > formats, etc., in other words everything about the documentation
> > coming with the packages.  The other one is about how we within the
> > DDP handle uploads, style guide, etc., in other words everything
> > specific for the documentation written within DDP. 

(Correct.)

> As there are IMHO no conflicts I propose to put both aspects into one
> document to ease maintainance.

Probably not a good idea. The two "policies" don't conflict, but they
target different people. The "doc policy" should go into the policy
manual (replacing the current chapter about documentation) while the "ddp
policy" should go into a new manual.


Thanks,

Chris

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