On Saturday 09 Feb 2013 à 17:12:04 (+1100), Peter Drysdale wrote: > Dear Users of Festival-doc, Hi,
Yes, I still exist! :) I follow your threads. Sorry to be quiet but life is strange in various aspects, including computing. And as I see some very technical and efficient debates take place between you, I don't react. But I don't stay far. :) > As one of the uploaders for festival and speech-tools I wish to start the > discussion about this recently > orphaned package. > > I note that upstream has not updated the documentation since version 1.4 of > festival ( we are now up to version 2.1). > Is it really appropriate to keep this doc package in Debian? Should it be > removed entirely? > > I have noticed that this documentation is very out of date upstream. > I would not be interested in assisting with this orphan package unless > someone persuades me otherwise. > Do the other maintainer/uploaders for festival have an opinion? Theorically I could adopt such package to include it in festival. However if i!'s obsolete, it's likely not a good ide. Nevertheless, does it mean that no doc exists for festival which is updated? If no, I think we can let this package orphan. If one exists, I think we should replace the contents of festival-doc with this new updated doc. Another question: isn't there any recent doc in the festival package? If yes, we can change control and rules files to generate festival and festival-doc packages from festival source. What's the exact situation of the doc upstream? Missing any up-to-date doc? In the source? In another place? I think the answer determines how to deal with the debian package. > Looking forward to hearing your comments. > > Should we be supporting some other information e.g. including a short file > with some > links to various sources of information about festival (possibly including > link to this old manual) > from within the festival package itself? If absolutely no doc exists, yes, I think it's a good idea to add a README.Debian. If the doc is really not relevant, yes it should be removed I think. Sincerely, > best regards, > Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
