On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:56:41AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Seconded. I suggest we move forward with this and that I apply it to master
> next week, if Russ is still OK with this.
Done. This is the summary:
* Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:51:58AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>
> > As always, once I start seriously poking at an area of Policy, I see
> > other little things that need to be fixed as well. Here is a general
> > overhaul of the additional documentation section, which sho
Le Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:51:58AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> Russ Allbery writes:
>
> > As always, once I start seriously poking at an area of Policy, I see
> > other little things that need to be fixed as well. Here is a general
> > overhaul of the additional documentation section, which
Russ Allbery writes:
> As always, once I start seriously poking at an area of Policy, I see
> other little things that need to be fixed as well. Here is a general
> overhaul of the additional documentation section, which should both
> address this bug as well as a few other things.
[...]
Here
Charles Plessy writes:
> There have been recurrent discussions about
> /usr/share/doc/package-doc being a symbolic link to
> /usr/share/doc/package. In my understanding, this is
> discouraged now. Perhaps this desserves a footnote ?
I tried to avoid changing anything in this area because we ha
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> - It is often a good idea to put text information files
>> - (READMEs, changelogs, and so forth) that come with
>> - the source package in /usr/share/doc/package
>> - in the binary package.
>> +
Hi,
Russ Allbery wrote:
> * Some reorganization and wording tweaks to hopefully make things clearer.
Alas, there's a lot of this --- enough that I wish this had been
prepared as a multiple-patch series, with for example whitespace-only
changes split out.
Oh, well. Onward. :)
[...]
> --- a/pol
As always, once I start seriously poking at an area of Policy, I see other
little things that need to be fixed as well. Here is a general overhaul
of the additional documentation section, which should both address this
bug as well as a few other things.
The changes here are:
* Shared library doc
I'm not sure where in the thread we lost this, but please copy the
relevant bug on Policy discussions so that we have an archived record of
the discussion without having to search out the appropriate time-based
portion of the debian-policy archive. I also make extensive use of
debian-bug-get-bug-a
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew McMillan writes:
>
> > My personal preference would be to encourage -doc packages to install
> > their files into /usr/share/doc//docs - including their
> > internal administrivia.
>
> That would break Lintian, apt-listchanges, prob
Andrew McMillan writes:
> My personal preference would be to encourage -doc packages to install
> their files into /usr/share/doc//docs - including their
> internal administrivia.
That would break Lintian, apt-listchanges, probably the DAK processing
scripts, and anything else that looks at copy
Thank you for writing this up!
Ben Finney writes:
> There seems to be consensus on doing this, so I've made a patch
> (attached to this message) which implements that recommendation.
I'm inclined to second this, although I wonder if should is too strong at
this point and we should instead allow
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> On 27-Sep-2003, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > Some proposed mandating that -doc package contents is placed into
> > /usr/share/doc//, and that the administrivia such as
> > copyright and changelog stays in /usr/share/doc/-doc/. This
> > sounds good
package debian-policy
retitle 106073 recommend to install additional documentation into
/usr/share/doc//
tags 106073 + patch
thanks
On 27-Sep-2003, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Some proposed mandating that -doc package contents is placed into
> /usr/share/doc//, and that the administrivia such as
> copyr
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