Re: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/fr/install.fr.html not available !

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:51:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:38:28AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > > on 
> > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/fr/install.fr.html
> > > > comes 404 Not found
> > > > 
> > > > Same with other languages
> > > 
> > > Where did you find links to those URLs?
> > 
> > >>From http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/index.en.html
> > in 'Translated Documentation' section.
> 
> Ahem. It says
> 
>            On the Internet, links to translated installation documentation
>            are at http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual.
>            If you are reading this from an FTP archive or CD-ROM, you may
>            find translations of the Installation Manual, Release Notes, and
>            dselect Beginner's Guide in language subdirectories:
> 
> Looks like the m4 macros aren't too smart to distinguish and avoid confusing
> users. (Thank goodness this stuff is going away with sarge...)

No, this is a very good example of why having a single layout for WWW,
FTP and CD is painful.  All files are installed under flat directories like
  /org/www.debian.org/bf/woody/boot-floppies/documentation/arch/i386
whereas links in index files point to per-language subdirectories.

Denis