Le Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:09:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
>
> > On my side, I think that the current practice is not to serve /doc by
> > default,
> > and I therefore second the proposition of Thomas to remove point 2 of
> > chapter
> > 11.5.
> >
> > Are there other seconds or objections ?
>
> Seconded.
Thanks. Here is the patch that I will apply soon. I marked 11.5.2 as deleted
instead of removing it fully, to avoid renumbering the other items.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 45337ce..fe4a858 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>
Closes: #669915
+ * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
+ Wording: Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
+ Closes: #715804
* debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Seconded: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 1508231..953d5d2 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9669,24 +9669,7 @@ http://localhost/cgi-bin/<var>cgi-bin-name</var>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Access to HTML documents</p>
-
- <p>
- HTML documents for a package are stored in
- <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>
- and can be referred to as
- <example compact="compact">
-http://localhost/doc/<var>package</var>/<var>filename</var>
- </example>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- The web server should restrict access to the document
- tree so that only clients on the same host can read
- the documents. If the web server does not support such
- access controls, then it should not provide access at
- all, or ask about providing access during installation.
- </p>
+ <p>(Deleted)</p>
</item>
<item>
diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index bcc4c1d..5714e84 100644
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ Unreleased.
<item>New section documenting the <tt>Package-Type</tt> field in source
package control files.
</item>
+<tag>11.5.2</tag>
+ <item>Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from
+ <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file>.
+ </item>
<tag>12.2</tag>
<item>Packages distributing Info documents should use
<package>install-info</package>'s trigger, and do not need anymore
