Justin B Rye, le Tue 28 Jul 2015 21:06:03 +0100, a écrit : > Holger Wansing wrote: > > Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> An interesting idea, but one that seems unlikely to work, especially > >> given the way it's used in the text. For instance, there's a page > >> "welcome/what-is-debian-linux.xml", which is full of sentences like > >> "&debian; was the first Linux distribution to include a package > >> management system". > > > > It was mostly me changing Debian into &debian; that days in 2010. > > If I remember correctly, it was initiated by a post of Frans Pop, > > who proposed that change. And the rationale was in fact, to get a > > manual, that can easily be turned from a "Debian installer manual" into > > a "Ubuntu installer manual", for example. > > Whoever it is that's reworking the manual for the derivative is still > going to need to go through the whole text changing the content.
Yes, but most probably only once. The really-debian-specific text hasn't really changed much over years. > The &debian; entity seems liable to cost us more effort than it saves > them (a single extra search-and-replace operation). Yes, but once in place, merges become trivial. That's the whole point of it. > >> The "&architecture;", > >> "&arch-title;" and "&arch-kernel;" entities are slightly oddly named > > Since I keep losing track and having to check again, I'll leave a note > for myself here: > "&architecture;" = "32-bit PC", "32-bit soft-float ARM", etc. > "&arch-title;" = "i386", "armel", etc. > "&arch-kernel; = "Linux", "KFreeBSD", etc. This, and also: Hendrik Boom wrote: > So I suppose it would be reasonable to put a comment in the document > source explaining this, perhaps where these macros are defined can probably find its way to common.ent indeed, patches (or simply, commits) welcome :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150804192735.GG3954@type
