Re: [SUMMARY] issues under contention in debian metadata
Some time around 10 Jul 1998 16:31:32 EDT,
Adam P. Harris wrote:
> "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> > Could you please update the current topics page on the DDP webpages with
> > a suitable summary of this topic, with references to the full text of
> > your proposals?
>
> Will do.
>
> > Please have a look at the webpages for things that are out of date or
> > incorrect.
>
> >From http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/manuals.html. First off, it
> would be nice to have a TOC there pointing down to anchors of the
> major categories, i.e., "General Manuals", "User Manuals", etc.
>
> General Manuals:
>
> "Debian GNU/Linux FAQ" link (=>
> http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/faq/index.html) is broken.
>
> There's another FAQ too, a FAQ-o-matic called the "Debian-user FAQ",
> maintained by Igor (who is looking for volunteers for maintaining this
> very bazaar-style FAQ) which is at http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html.
>
> Administrator Manuals:
>
> The installation guide is maintained now primarily by Igor Grobman.
> It's been recently updated. HTML is at
> http://www.igoria.net/install/install.html, SGML sources are in there
> too. He doesn't seem to use CVS; perhaps we could give Igor a subdir
> under the CVS tree and have him do it right out of there. Also the
> title is changed, it's now "Installing Debian Linux 2.0 For x86". It
> only covers x86, and Debian Linux 2.0 is not *only* for x86 anymore,
> so let's try to rid ourselves of x86-centricness.
Yea, I haven't learned CVS yet *blush*, but I am sure it wouldn't take me
long. As soon as I do that, I'll be happy to maintain debian docs using it ;)
>
> Developers Manuals:
>
> These are more my personal comments rather than corrections.
>
> "Introduction: Making a Debian Package" -- out of date, only mentions
> debmake, not the debhelper tools. How this manual fits in with all
> the other (half-finished, all!) "how to make a package" tutorials puts
> the relevance of this document into question for me.
>
> "Debian Packaging HOWTO" -- also out of date, but more in keeping with
> what debian manuals should look like. Igor, is this orphaned or are
> you still the one?
Well... let's put it this way, I wouldn't mind updating it, but at this point
I have too many Debian things to take care of, and no time for them. This is
definitely not on the top of my list :(. It's amazing what a (temporarily)
full-time job can do to you...
>
> Someone earlier mentioned a a debmake howto. I think that and the
> Packaging HOWTO should be merged. Can someone track down the person
> who mentioned they were working on this, get their name and add an
> entry for them, and maybe convince them to subscribe to this group
> and/or put their source into CVS under the debian-doc tree and/or
> merge their manual with the "Packaging HOWTO" above?
I think you are talking about Jaldhar Vyas <jaldhar@braincells.com> . Last I
heard he was in the middle of rewriting his docs to talk about debhelper. I
have never used debhelper in my own packages, so if I ever get around to
updating the packaging howto, I would probably have to team up with Jaldhar
and write the "do it all yourself" part of it.
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Igor Grobman igor@debian.org igor@igoria.net
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