The Debian FAQ [1] has been, unfortunately, unmaintained for quite some time and needs a little review. I updated information in the FAQ in preparation for the sarge release when I noticed that it was out of date and incomplete, I notified this in [0]. Osamu, please notice that this means that some content of the Debian Reference document (which copied & pasted some content from the FAQ) should be reviewed too. For example, the following is found in the latest version of the Reference: " Currently, stable/ is a symbolic link to woody/, and testing/ is a symbolic link to sarge/. This means that Woody is the current stable distribution and Sarge is the current testing distribution. " Which is wrong, as we all know already :-) I've been fixing some other sections which were talking about obsolete stuff and fixing some of its bugs but I would appreciate if other members of the list could review the FAQ fully and point out either: a- missing FAQ items, that is, things that people commonly ask about Debian that are not there and we should write about b- obsolete FAQ items, i.e., items in the FAQ that are no longe relevant and should be removed or rewritten. c- incorrect FAQ items, i.e., items that should be rewritten or fixed because they contain innacurate statements. I've fixed some of a), b) or c) with the help of Santiago Vila who is doing the Spanish translation but more peer review is needed here. Yes, I know there are far better documents out there in some aspects (the installation manual, the Debian reference...). However, there are several reasons why this document should be kept up to date: it's included in the official Debian CDs (it's one of the few documentation items there), it's included in all the official Debian mirrors (under /doc/), and many users might go to it since it's listed as the first "User document" currently in our web page. Thanks for your help! Regards Javier PS: I also plan to remove the 'byhand' used in the FAQ to publish it under ftp.debian.org/doc/ and replace it with a better alternative that should allow for translations to be published. Maybe we could extend this to other documents too as we talked about in the past... [0] Message-ID: <20050603004819.GA17340@dat.etsit.upm.es> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#faq [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html
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