[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Any plans for a bash-doc-nonfree? If you're not going to produce one
>>> will you sponsor an upload for me? I think it is important to include
>>> such important documentation in Debian.
>>
>> Can you briefly describe what's the added value of the missing
>> documents, compared to the existing man page and some existing info
>> documents?
>
> I find the reference manual much more readable (and more suitable for
> printing) since it is structured more like a book. It goes into greater
> detail and has more explanatory information ("What is a shell?", "What is
> bash?" and so on) than the man page, which is IMHO just a (far) overgrown
> quick-reference sheet. :)
You are right, it's a worthwile addition. If you prepare a package
(preferrably "blessed" by debian-mentors), I'm willing to sponsor it.
I think we should also ask the release team about an exception for
inclusion of the package in etch.
Matthias, are you willing to remove the registering of the document
from bash-doc's maintainer scripts in an upload targetted at etch?
Otherwise we'd need to use a different name (perhaps being a symlink to
the normal name).
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
