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Re: faq on ftp mirrors, debian-faq package, VCS for faq/debian/ (was: Re: doc-debian 3.1.3 [...])



Hi,

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:16:28AM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Op di 14 mrt 2006 om 05:18:32 +0100 schreef Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:13:38PM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > > 
> <snip>
> > > BTW, I don't think it is still appropriate for the FAQ to be published
> > > on ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ and all it's mirrors...  The Debian
> > > Debian Installation Guide (and maybe Debian Reference) would be more
> > > suitable, imho.
> > 
> > Why not? All projects ship the FAQ in their mirrors.
> 
> Mandriva doesn't, Red Hat doesn't, Fedora doesn't, SUSE doesn't, Open
> SUSE doesn't, Gentoo doesn't.  (Lot's do, 'though.)  Some ship
> installation manuals via their mirrors.
> 
> Anyway, FAQ 3.1.3 points readers to the Installation Manual.  Perhaps
> this problem isn't big enough to invest precious time :)
> 
> <snip comment on: new debian-faq package should get split off
> debian-doc>

Note however that It's hard to update the FAQ. It requires manual work
of ftp-masters. For example have a look at: #262425

Cheers,
-- 
                                Pierre Machard
<pmachard@debian.org>                                 http://debian.org
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