Bug#169399: handling of additional documentation with doc-base

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:45:32AM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
> As the doc-base maintainer, some comments on the progress of this bug.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 02:01:29AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It would be cool if somebody could figure out how to fix #114692
> > first.  :( Packages with many distinct pieces of additional
> > documentation can't practicably use doc-base otherwise. I don't know
> > if it might require significant design work ...
> 
> This bug has been mitigated, although not fixed.  I do allow simple
> command-line switcher to allow for registering slews of documentation
> orders of magnitude faster.  That should hold us until the redesign is
> ready (v2).

Thanks, Adam. Although I haven't had a chance to try out the changes
yet, your description of them in #114692 suggests that I'll be able to
switch doc-linux-html over in next month's update, which will remove my
objection.

I appreciate the work!

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]