Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation
Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> writes:
> In counterpoint, I'll add to that 4169 packages register 5318 sets of
> documents in doc-base. To me, that says that we've got a lot of packages
> who are advertising their documentation this way.
I wish I had some feel for how many people were actually using doc-base as
a client, though. How many users actually run the tools and use them to
find documentation, and is it successful for them?
I dutifully provide doc-base registrations for all the documentation in
all of my packages, but I think in all the time I've been using Debian
I've only run the tool as a user maybe twice, and then only to check
whether my package documentation showed up. So the fact that my packages
all have doc-base registrations doesn't indicate those registrations are
useful, necessarily.
> At the user-support BoF at the last DebConf, we also discussed how we
> could leverage doc-base files better to make documentation more easily
> discoverable. That is work-in-progress.
That sort of thing would be really cool.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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