Re: A directory tree of www.debian.org/doc/ ?
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:17:18PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
> Hello Richard
>
> El 02/03/18 a las 15:19, Richard Owlett escribió:
> > By a convoluted set of links, I arrived at
Well please be specific.
> > <www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt>
The current point of referral should be coming from:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-virtual-pkg
> > That page did not have the specific details I wanted.
What were you looking?
> However its format
> > suggested how to organize some data I already had. I went up a level to
> > <www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/>
Agh.... That is old deprecated document whose real content is now the
Debian pOlicy. Only data files such as virtual-package-names-list.txt
still lives there as I understand.
> > Unfortunately clicking on "Parent Directory" led me to a HTML document,
> > not a list of sister directories of <.../packaging-manuals>.
Yah... Please read
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#s-virtual-pkg
> > When I started this post I was thinking "Debian bibliography". But that
> > has inappropriate connotations for my goal.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> > TIA
I hope this helps.
Adding README file in www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/ pointing
people like him to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy may be a
good idea. Whoever have write access to www-master or something
pertinent ... please do something.
TIA.
Osamu
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