Re: Downloading docs via cvs (was: Re: Bug#144456: ITP: qref -- debian quick reference.)
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:21:19PM +0200, David Schmitt wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:16:32PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > - documentation packages should *not* include the documentation, they
> > should just do a "cvs co" from the DDP CVS (see harden-doc for example,
> > or the java-common package)
>
> Please reconsider that with respect to offline reading and - especially
> in Europe where quite a few of the targeted audience live - constrained
> bandwidth (and download volume).
I was talking about the sources. I might have not expressed myself
correctly. That is, sources should not have the documents, they should
just do a 'cvs co' or, if they had the sources they should be using
cvs-buildpackage and update from the DDP CVS.
Of course, documentation packages (binaries) should include the
documentation for offline reading.
>
> It also may be intresting to have matching Documentation to the packages
> currently installed (eg. from CD). Although this may not be relevant for
> most of doc-linux, changes to e.g. qref may be non-trivial between
> versions.
>
I was last week working on this. Hopefully the ftpmasters will
take this work and modify the current /doc layout in the main ftp server
(and thus in the mirrors and in the CDs which take from this).
Regards
Javi
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