Re: GSoC status: classification, output format and more
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> writes:
> jorda@ettin.org writes:
>> Btw, I didn't say much about Source:, but that's because I was thinking
>> of reusing Ref: which already has the relevant information. Though some
>> standardization wouldn't hurt: using the document ID as defined by
>> doc-base instead of its title (and optional debian- prefixes?),
>> removing the word "section", and making it a comma separated list. So
>> instead of:
>
> This is probably the right time to note something which has been bugging
> me for some time now. The developer's reference uses actual names for
> the section internally, so not much effort is spent on keeping the
> section number stable. OTOH, lintian references it, so this could at
> some point lead to broken links. I'm not sure what the best solution is
> in this case, but iff we are redesigning the Ref: use anyway, we should
> keep this problem in mind.
I'm all in favor of moving to more stable references. The main constraint
from my perspective is to maintain our ability to create working
hyperlinks on lintian.d.o (which we're probably not doing that well at
already).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Reply to: