Re: Bug#147162: debiandoc-sgml-doc: Debiandoc-sgml-doc is not available in the DDP CVS
Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a (jfs@computer.org) wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 08:46:29AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> >
> > That means you assume I'm constantly connected to the net. I've got a local CVS
> > repository so that I don't _need_ to be connected to the net all the time (e.g.
> > on vacation). Show me an easy way to sync CVS repositories and we're in business.
>
> I would just have to CVS checked out modules, one the local system
> and another the DDP. Just copying the appropiate files from one to the
> other (the sgml source probably) and doing a cvs ci in the DDP area from
> time to time would be ok.
> It would be almost as easy to extract the history from the local
> CVS since the last updated and add it (by using the appropiate CVS
> Revision tag)
> Something like
> (out of the top of my head and written in haste so it might not work
> completely)
>
> for i in MyCVSDir
> do
> curversion=`cat $i | perl -ne 'print $1 if /Id: \w+,v ([\d\.]+)
> /'`
> oversion=`cat DDPCVSdir/$i | perl -ne 'print $1 if /Id: \w+,v
> ([\d\.]+) /'`
> cvs log -N -R$oversion:$curversion > /tmp/cvslog
> cat $i | perl -pe 's/\$(Id|Revision):/$1:/' > DDPCVSdir/$i
> cd DDPCVSDIR
> cvs ci -m /tmp/cvslog $i
> done
Ok, this might work. But it also forces me to keep in sync for any changes
made to the sources in the CVS repository. Given the upcoming comnplete
overhaul I don't think I want anybody else to work on it until things have
settled down in a releasable form.
> > This sounds to me like that the DDP thinks it "owns" the DebianDoc-SGML manual.
> > I don't agree. The manual is a part of the DebianDoc-SGML package which IMHO
> > means that I've got something to say about whether the sources have to be put in
> > the DDP CVS repository or not.
>
> That's absolutely true (for the moment, see below :)
> >
> > Nowhere it is stated that each and every piece of documentation in Debian is
> > owned by the DDP. I was involved in the DDP more or less from day 1, so I would
> > know if that were the case.
>
> I'm not saying that the DDP *owns* documentation. I'm just saying
> that documentation should be available so that people can contribute
> either changes to the original documentation or translations. Keeping
> track of translations is useless without someway to track changes in
> upstream code also.
I agree with this for pure documentation of which the DDP mostly consists of.
But application related documentation should not be a part of the DDP. That's
not what the DDP was set up for.
> In order to do so, and I will be asking for a change of the
> current (obsolete) DDP policy, documentation must *always* be readily
> available in the DDP CVS server. It's can of pointless having documents
> distributed under a free documentation license and not allowing anybody,
> save for the upstream maintainer to make changes to the code.
So, you plan to put all the manual pages, all the Info pages, etc., etc., ...
under the DDP? That's in no way feasible nor desirable. Let alone that you
would get that policy approved by the project.
> I know how painful it is to work with slow modems, but using SSH
> with compression and the CVS server at the DDP might not be that much
> painful. Have you tried to?
Yep, and I was definitely not impressed,
> If documents that are part of the way Debian does things, and
> that is not just manuals but also anyother documentation, are not part of
> the Debian Documentation Project then we should change it's name to the
> "Debian almost-everything-but-not-all-Documentation Project"
But DebianDoc-SGML is not about the Debian way. It's just an SGML DTD and
associated tools that have been developed out of a dissatisfaction for the
LinuxDoc (or whatever it was called back then) stuff. It can (and is) used
for other docs than just the Debian documentation. Let's say the DDP moves
to DocBook-XML. Do you plan to maintain the associated documentation in the
DDP? I don't think so.
Thanks,
Ardo
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