Bug#545548: [PATCH 0/3] debian-policy package should include a pointer to http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> These series of patches add easy to edit sources for a README file,
> for documenting the Policy change process, and finally, the upgrading
> checklist. The source format is designed to be easy to read and edit,
> and is rendered into a pretty text format, as well as HTML, as long
> as a recent versionof Emacs is found. The rendered files are shipped
> in the package to avoid a build dependency on Emacs; the idea is that
> policy editors have emacs isntalled and pre-create the rendered files
> before release, kind of like the bad old days of autotools.
I'm okay with that, personally. It'll give me something new in Emacs to
play with. It's not entirely ideal, but if it's expedient, I have no
problems.
In the long run, using something like Markdown or reStructured Text for
documents like this that aren't full manuals might be a good idea.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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