Re: debian-faq in NEW - or: remove documentation from the archive at all
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 07:54:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 20:52 +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
>
> > Maybe in a next upload of debian-faq, we could get rid of this by-hand stuff.
> > Afaik it's only used to get the FAQ content published at
> > https://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/
>
> I think it would be better to send a dak patch turning the manual
> processing for debian-faq by-hand into automatic by-hand processing.
> There are multiple examples of automatic by-hand processing in dak,
> so it should not be very hard to do that.
>
> > Now that we no longer offer our mirrors via ftp
>
> The ftp protocol is irrelevant here, since the documentation is
> available on the mirrors irrespective of what protocol is used to
> contact them or if the mirror is an offline one available on disk.
>
> > I guess most of the rationale for doing this is gone.
>
> I think the rationale remains the same; that the mirrors should have a
> readable copy of some Debian documentation. If anything I would argue
> that that documentation available there should be increased to also
> include the Debian install guide and perhaps other documentation.
A, indeed, good point. And I agree with all other points (but unfortunately
don't have time to write a dak patch).
Luckily ftp-masters in the mean time did accept the faq upload. Thanks!
Bye,
Joost
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