Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2012-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > I had similar thoughts when preparing the patch, but did not propose the > merge as I did not find an easy way to produce with DebianDoc-SGML a > stand-alone text version of the upgrade checklist, which I think has > some value. My gut feeling is that it may be doable wi

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2012-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 04:39:59PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > I thought about this more this morning, and realized that the real > solution to all of this is to make the upgrading checklist an appendix to > Policy. That way, we can use regular internal document links and let the > document

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2012-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:58:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> My first inclination would be to change the debian-policy package to >> stop generating the broken-down version of the upgrading-checklist that >> has multiple HTML files (there doesn't seem to be much po

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2012-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:58:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > My first inclination would be to change the debian-policy package to stop > generating the broken-down version of the upgrading-checklist that has > multiple HTML files (there doesn't seem to be much point for that > document), g

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:58:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Charles Plessy writes: >>> Using IDs, like this: >> >>>Version 3.9.3.0 >> >>> The HTML document will have anchors like that: >> >>> 2.1 Version 3.9.3.0 >> >>> They will be easy to preserve if t

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-12-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:58:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Using IDs, like this: > > >Version 3.9.3.0 > > > The HTML document will have anchors like that: > > > 2.1 Version 3.9.3.0 > > > They will be easy to preserve if the checklist migrates to DocB

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:13:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: >>> I though about this, but couldn't come up with any easy solution. I >>> mostly consider this tool to be useful for people who just have to >>> check

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:13:14AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > > I though about this, but couldn't come up with any easy solution. I > > mostly consider this tool to be useful for people who just have to check > > the very last versions of

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-09-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > I though about this, but couldn't come up with any easy solution. I > mostly consider this tool to be useful for people who just have to check > the very last versions of the policy, so the problem is actually quite > mitigated. > > I don't ev

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-09-03 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi. On 03/09/2011 14:40, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello Giovanni, > > upgrading-checklist really points to sections of a specific version of policy > and not the current one, except for the first entries. How do you plan to > handle that ? When policy is restuctured, links will get wrong. I thou

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-09-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:45:52AM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > Hi. > > It would be useful to have a copy of the HTML version of > upgrading-checklist somewhere on the web. This could, for example, be > linked from the PTS when some package's

Bug#639663: [debian-policy] Please provide upgrading-checklist via web

2011-08-29 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Hi. It would be useful to have a copy of the HTML version of upgrading-checklist somewhere on the web. This could, for example, be linked from the PTS when some package's Standards-Version has to be upgraded. In #485085 the problem of the links from upgr