-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> TOPIC 11: policy about including documentation > > The current policy concerning docs is: > > - HTML is the preferred format > - if the package includes docs than can be converted into HTML, > the maintainer should do so > - if the doc files are to big, they should go into a seperate > package > > There are a few problems, though: > > - .info files can be converted into HTML on-the-fly by the CGI > script "info2www". However, the output of ``texi2html'' is > much better. Should we ship only HTML by default and put > .info in a seperate package? (cf. bug #7890) The simplest solution is to ship html in a different package. This way the user will be able to choose to not install the html docs if he/she believes info2www is enough. IMHO we should not drop .info from the main package, or we would have drop the "GNU" in "GNU/Linux" (info is GNU's standard documentation system). > - how "large" may doc files be until they are moved into a > seperate package? In general: 1 byte :-) By placing them in a separate package, the user will be able to not install it if he/she wishes, and we will save a lot of disk space in master, since doc packages go to binary-all. I would change the policy from "if the doc files are to big, they should go into a seperate package" to "if the doc files are too small, they may go in the same package". Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM6WcASqK7IlOjMLFAQFSUAP+OJuJGkVKSm/UL0mLHVlnpB+EBhWOjyvP z88sDDvhEMpyfeVRW4tPaoQRkvdiPsurDlWtT/29UemlA6BVZVHFFCWQ8EnSwGwD nR3R7XJesaaHyrBuobkC+WEMvn3/un8lKU6FEiqdHMCrda8rSNuaUPqNOVPOwYph 3F2IP1Hhmfc= =bY+m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
