Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 03:29:05AM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Debian" == Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> writes:
>
> Debian> Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> >> reassign 58638 boot-floppies
> Debian> Bug#58638: The documentation in disks-i386 is not available in other languages
> Debian> Bug reassigned from package `ftp.debian.org' to `boot-floppies'.
>
> This reminds me... Not only do we need to ensure that the
> non-english documentation gets installed by our `make release'
> target, we need to make sure that the file names are of the correct
> form so that content negotiation will function correctly.
>
> Yesterday was the first time I read anything about that... What I
> learned is that with Apache "Options Multiviews", a file named like
> "name.html.en" will be found when "name.html" is requested, but a
> name like "name.en.html" will not, unless `mod_rewrite' is used...(?)
>
> Can you clue me in? What should we be naming the documentation files
> like so that things will function correctly on
> <URL:http://http.us.debian.org/debian> and others?
>
Please name file using the convention foo.lang.html . We decided on that
format instead of foo.html.lang because apache can get confused on the
mime type. Local links should be relative and only name the file base,
e.g. foo.
On a related note, is boot-floppies responsible for the files in
releases/{slink,potato}/? There are a number of problems with links there
and I need to know who to forward problems/bugs to (and there are currently
a LOT of broken links). If I had access to the source, I'd even be willing
to fix problems with the links.
In the future, could you send mail directly to debian-www? We'd combine
webmaster and debian-www, but webmaster occasionally gets mail not meant
for public consumption.
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James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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