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Bug#872895: debian-policy: Split html for policy lost



control: retitle -1 Include multi-page HTML in package
^ see below for explanation

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 22 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:10:36PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> - it would be nice to include the multi-page rendering in the package
>
> More than nice, please.  I don't really deal with huge single-page
> documents.  Besides you wrote:
>> The single page output is much more useful to casual readers wanting
>> to look something up
> I deem this completely subjective, please don't assume such assertion as
> facts.  Also, I don't consider myself a "causual reader" and when I want
> to read something up I know what's the name of the paragrah, pick it
> from the index and then head to the relevant, single page.

Right, indeed, you're not a casual reader, and we would expect you to
have the Debian package installed.  I think the web version should be
tailored for people coming from outside the project who don't know that
such a package exists.  For them, it's easier to have a single page.

This is subjective but that doesn't preclude me making a judgement about
what most people would prefer, based on my experience.

>> - since we're publishing only the single-page version on
>> www.debian.org, we need to rewrite the links
>
> Please do publish both.

On Tue, Aug 22 2017, Guillem Jover wrote:

> I guess there are two problems here, one is indeed completely losing
> the multi-page rendering from the package. The other is the default
> change in the web site. IMO the best solution, and what is customary,
> is to present both (or more) rendering and let the user select:
>
>   [HTML one-page] [HTML multi-page] [PDF] [EPUB]

So you'd like https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ to be a menu?

I think that those who want this should file a bug against
www.debian.org.  It's not really in our purview, since we don't maintain
the script that maintains the /doc/ directory.  Hence I'm retitling this
bug to the part that is the policy editors' responsibility.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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