Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian
Tyler Smith wrote:
This has been getting increasingly aggravating for me, as I find more
and more of the documentation is either stowed out of sight in
non-free, or has actually been put in some sort of package purgatory
while someone decides what to do with it (ie. the elisp docs, which
are currently not in etch, although I did find them in unstable).
<SNIP>
From an advocacy point of view it might be worth considering what
message we're sending to users if they have to use the non-free repos
just to get basic documentation. Should make-doc really be in the same
category as proprietary drivers?
Bluefish, which I recently posted about, is a good example. I DO have
non-free in my sources.list, but I can not find ANY documentation for
it. The README that came with it says that the manual should be in the
docs/ subdirectory. Unfortunately, this subdirectory does not seem to
exist. I can get the manual online at
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/manual/, but if the upstream version
changes and the docs change with it then this will no longer match what
is on my Debian/Stable box. There appears to be no what to get the docs
resident on my box to match the installed version of the software.
--
Marc Shapiro
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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
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