Re: wiki.debian.org/doc/packagename/readme.debian ?
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:03 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working on a script that would create a website page like this:
> >
> > http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/doc/ant/README.Debian
>
> Hi Lukasz,
>
> That would be very nice! I question whether the wiki would be the best
> place for it, though. It's something that it seems to me would be
> better served in a fully automatic way from packages.debian.org.
>
> There is already some functionality like this for Debian changelogs and
> copyright files, see for instance
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/coreutils/current/
>
> I don't know what script is used to generate these files (nor who is
> responsible for that script), but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard for
> it to also output the README.Debian files there.
That would be quite the correct place for publishing static files, IMHO.
> It's also worth mentioning that some similar requests have been made in
> the past: #264589 (man pages), #391359 (upstream changelogs), #419201
> (NEWS.Debian files), and these merged bugs that ask for *all* package
> files to be available for individual download: #148554, #162330, #398942.
I made http://sysinf0.klabs.be for this purpose : publish all the
package/files so one can retrieve and diff any arbitrary file (including
default configuration file, documentation, manpages, scripts...)
sysinf0 still lacks a three important features :
1. Per-package browser
2. Track Debian/sid and testing (daily updates...)
3. Provide hints/directions for search engines (I can't let
google index all 10 millions files !)
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