Re: single-page html of debian-policy to be revived?
- To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
- Cc: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>, Thomas Lange <lange@cs.uni-koeln.de>, 877337@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: single-page html of debian-policy to be revived?
- From: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:59:37 +0200
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On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon 15 Apr 2024 at 09:59am GMT, Holger Levsen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 08:43:51PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >> ... but if dev-ref is already shipping both, maybe singlepage is indeed
> >> usable these days ...
> >
> > I think it is.
> >
> >> > Could the Policy Editors team check, if everything is fine now, and if
> >> > this should be published again?
> >> > At least there is still an issue with the footnotes, there are 16 occurrences
> >> > of #id1 for example... (search for "[1]" in policy-1.html).
> >> Hrm. That seems like a pretty serious problem :\
> >
> > I wouldnt call it serious. annoying yes, maybe.
> >
> >> Holger L., did you know about this issue?
> >> Did you decide it was worth publishing anyway?
> >
> > yes.
> >
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#how-could-installing-a-package-into-testing-possibly-break-other-packages
> > or (single page)
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developers-reference.en.html#how-could-installing-a-package-into-testing-possibly-break-other-packages
> > both show four footnotes, right where they belong, it's just that
> > each foot note is numbered and that [1] or [2] or whatever is
> > a link, pointing to a wrong place.
> >
> > I agree it's a bug, but I do think it's a pretty harmless one.
>
> Thanks. I'd be grateful for some feedback from other regular Policy
> contributors.
My view is that any issue with single-page is much more likely to be fixed if
we use it than if we do not.
I note that the links from the text to the footnotes are correct, it is only the backlink from the
footnotes to the text which are wrong. I consider this minor.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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