Re: Uploading updated documentation package to frozen
On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 02:04:08PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:52:58PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote:
> > However, I would like to amend the above. (BTW, is it a Policy? I
> > couldn't find the word "frozen" in the Policy Manual. ;-) IMHO, the above
> > rule should not be applied to pure documentation packages, including (but
> > not limited to) all the Debian documentations and the various Linux HOWTOs
> > package. The reasons are rather obvious:
> >
> > 1. I don't think "bugs" can crept into a text document. Spelling errors
> > or grammatical errors, maybe, but I doubt it. Besides, even if there
> > are some spelling errors, they definitely won't affect the system. ;-)
> Pure textual changes can't have bugs, I agree. But don't change the
> packaging infrastructure or backends - new bugs might creep up there.
Agreed, except in the case where the upstream documentation structure
changes. Anyhow, the maintainer is responsible to check the new package
*very* carefully (e.g. check for dangling links in HTML documents) to make
sure it is bug free. :-)
Anthony
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