Re: fbbdoc package - possible removal
On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 08:03:08 Colin Tuckley wrote:
> On 08/09/14 23:53, Chris Knadle wrote:
[...]
> > and the docs/html/ directory looks very similar to me, so I'm not sure I
> > understand what you mean. Is this not the same source?
>
> It's the same as the last version ...
>
> >From docackno.htm ...
>
> Page last updated on 17 november 1996
Oh. :-( So in other words the files that upstream are shipping in the
tarball are getting stale.
> > It seems (on the surface at least) like the fbbdoc package is essentially
> > a
> > duplicate of what's contained in fbb and that the fbb package control file
> > could add an 'fbb-doc' binary package if it's still desirable to have
> > these
> > docs split into a separate package. [Or at least if I was maintaining
> > this
> > package, that's one of things I'd consider.]
>
> If the files were up to date, then yes, that would be the sensible thing.
>
> However Upstream is saying that he won't be keeping the docs in the
> tarball up to date. At least that was my understanding, I will check
> back with him.
Okay.
-- Chris KB2IQN
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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