Bug#500371: please explicitly state svn repository URL in README-contrib
tags 500371 + pending
thanks
On 27/09/08 at 10:06 -0400, Christine Spang wrote:
> Package: developers-reference
> Version: 3.4.0
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> The README-contrib documentation file tells one to look for the subversion
> source of the developer's reference on svn.debian.org, but it does not mention
> which project module it's contained in, which in turn can easily lead to
> searching around on svn.debian.org for the "developers-reference" project,
> which doesn't exist.
>
> The attached patch (against current trunk) changes this to explicitly state
> the trunk repository of the source, so that those wanting to quickly locate it
> in order to submit patches can do so. It also adds a link to the DDP SVN
> access document at http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs, and fixes a minor grammatical
> error.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> developers-reference depends on no packages.
>
> Versions of packages developers-reference recommends:
> ii debian-policy 3.8.0.1 Debian Policy Manual and related d
>
> Versions of packages developers-reference suggests:
> ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen
>
> -- no debconf information
> Index: README-contrib
> ===================================================================
> --- README-contrib (révision 5385)
> +++ README-contrib (copie de travail)
> @@ -51,15 +51,21 @@
>
> If you're interested in ongoing maintenance, once you've shown that
> you've mastered the style of the manual with a couple accepted
> -patches, you can be given SVN access. If you have already
> +patches, you can be given SVN access. If you already have
> access to the SVN server for other reasons, do not use it unless
> authorized to do so.
>
> -Instructions on how to get the SVN version of this software, including
> -how to get SVN access, can be found at
> -<URL:http://svn.debian.org/>.
> +This manual is a part of the Debian Documentation Project (DDP).
> +Information about SVN access for DDP can be found at
> +<http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs>.
>
> +If you just want to check out the current SVN version of this
> +manual to create patches against, you can use the following
> +command to do so:
>
> +svn co svn://svn.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference
> +
> +
> * Translators
>
> We have tried to keep language-independant bits of text in common.ent.
Thanks a lot, applied to svn.
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