On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 05:39:03PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 16:25:20 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 20 August 2015 15:30:04 Chris Bannister wrote: > > > To be fair, there are some Debian.readme which make no sense to an end > > > user. I've seen some Debian.readme files which talk about about how to > > > compile the program. Hello? Isn't Debian a "binary" distribution. > > > > Yes. So someone - you? me? - needs to write them. I didn't say it was > > perfect. But gift horses etc. If you can't do it, and I can't do it, find > > a > > volunteer who can. I usually find the README files useless, or nearly. > > There are some excellent README.Debian files. The ones you find lacking > in some way are the ones you should file bugs about with suggested > improvements. It is a relatively easy and painless way to put something > into Debian without being a developer or maintainer. Looking around for > someone else to start the ball rolling is a surefire way of getting > nothing done.
But a README.Debian is not for documentation, is it? IOW, probably easier to ask for removal than guess what should go in there. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
