On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Are you saying it looks anywhere near as nice as mine ? > > Well, I think it looks awful, but I will accept your format simply > to end this argument if you or someone else > will write and maintain the parser for it and > an automated tool to generate it.
Please add "and document" to this. If tools are introduced into the distribution, the author and maintainer of those tools should provide and maintain man pages for them. > I don't see how you could seriously propose a context-dependent parse, but > I'm sick of the argument. Me too. I also reiterate my suggestion that we stop the practice of maintainers announcing directly (and prematurely) to debian-changes, and have the maintainer announcements uploaded to debian.org along with the other package files, machine-parsed there, and machine-produced announcements in whatever announcement format is deemed appropriate incorporating information from the machine-parsed maintainer uploads made from debian.org once the packages being announced are actually available as part of the distribution.
