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Bug#545548: debian-policy package should include a pointer to http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess



Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> writes:

>         I am writing the sources of this in a mode that I can turn into
>  text as well as html, and I was planning on just adding it to the html
>  files produced by the policy package, as well as a set of .txt files in
>  /usr/share/doc. Once we have released that, and the html files are live
>  on the web, we can turn the wiki pages into pointers to them.

Sounds great to me.  Using lynx -dump or something similar to generate the
text files from the HTML files, or some other format that generates both
output formats?

It might be nice sorting out a nice hyperlinkable format for
upgrading-checklist too while we're at it, since there's been a frequent
request for things like the PTS to be able to link to the
upgrading-checklist data for a particular release and for the section
references in the document to be links to the relevant bits of Policy.
It's currently theoretically in HTML, but all the content is a giant <pre>
block so that's only theoretical.

>         I would be happy to maintain these documents in the package
>  itself, and we can decide on the css (my current css received a number
>  of negative reviews about fonts and colors, but I am sure there are
>  plenty of people who can who can show me the error of my ways here).

Sounds good to me.  I know enough CSS to do something simple like my
personal web pages, so I may be able to help.  My style definitely tends
towards the minimal.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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