Re: ubuntu ocaml documentation
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:05:49PM +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:23 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:04:57AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> > > There are some differences I have discovered, for example
> > > Debian and Ubuntu use distinct documentation 'help' systems.
> > >
> > > Ubuntu rebuilding of Debian Ocaml docs gets me all the
> > > nice Documentation .. using the Debian packages directly
> > > does not.
> >
> > Could you please elaborate on that? If there are improvement in the
> > ubuntu packages which are missing in the debian ones we will all be
> > happy to integrate them back in our packages.
>
> No, there is nothing missing in the Debian ones.
>
> It is just that Debian uses a different documentation management
> system to Ubuntu.
>
> The 'master index' of documents is a different format and goes
> in a different place: Ubuntu is using Yelp, and some kind
> of weird thing different from Debian -- I found this out
> when trying to install my own Debian package on Ubuntu --
> the documentation conformed to Debian but didn't come up
> in the Yelp help index.. but the Ocaml documents DID come up.
So, ubuntu did modify debmenu, or whatever it was, to show up in the
gnome/ubuntu documentation stuff ? That is a pretty trivial change.
That said, i guess debian should show those documents also, altough i have not
tested this recently, could someone knowledgeable perhaps comment ?
> Because Ubuntu repackaged them I guess.
>
> I also had to supply 'omf' files which for GtkSourceView
> to lex Felix code -- not sure if that's standard for
> Ocaml on Debian or not (but the files seem to exist
> on the Ubuntu system).
>
> There are probably more differences -- the most important
> one is probably Ubuntu's heavy approach to internationalisation.
Well, with the bulk of ocaml's documentation being non-free and not allowing
translations, i wish them luck :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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