Re: `boot-floppies' documentation naming conventions?
>>>>> "James" == James A Treacy <treacy@debian.org> writes:
James> 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?
>>
James> Please name file using the convention foo.lang.html . We decided on that
James> format instead of foo.html.lang because apache can get confused on the
James> mime type. Local links should be relative and only name the file base,
James> e.g. foo.
James> On a related note, is boot-floppies responsible for the files in
James> releases/{slink,potato}/? There are a number of problems with links there
James> and I need to know who to forward problems/bugs to (and there are currently
James> a LOT of broken links). If I had access to the source, I'd even be willing
James> to fix problems with the links.
_Please_ feel free to do so. You have an account on cvs.debian.org,
I presume? (I'd be very surprised to hear you don't...) It would be
very helpful; you know more about it than I do and everyone is busy
at things.
James> In the future, could you send mail directly to debian-www? We'd combine
James> webmaster and debian-www, but webmaster occasionally gets mail not meant
James> for public consumption.
Ok.
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