Hi, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:49:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > After years and years of waiting for packages to register their > > documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all > > -- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite > > frustrated: ... > > So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered. > > I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file > > a bug against any package in the output of the last command. How do > > maintainers feel about that?
For these things in general, supplying lintian check is good idea. But fundamental question of usefulness of doc-base needs to be asked. But I think similar to Paul Wise for this doc-base. We should think about migrating data format and offload tool maintenance to existing tools just like what we are doing for FONT. > Actually, it's significantly less useful - most developers use manpages, but > I can't remember the last time I used the doc-base infrastructure to browse > documentation. True... > but on > non-desktop systems, I don't think we install a doc-base browser by default, > and I have never seen a text-mode browser for doc-base documentation that I > found worth using because browsing to /usr/share/doc/$package is always > quicker. very true ... > (Also, I just tried to use yelp on Ubuntu 10.04 to test out the user > experience of looking for documentation provided by doc-base... Despite > having rarian-compat and doc-base properly installed, and despite doc-base > being an unmodified Debian package, *none* of the doc-base documentation > appears to turn up when I search. Assuming this isn't an Ubuntu-specific > bug, I think it needs to be fixed before you can expect much maintainer > interest in providing new doc-base files. This is yelp issue which I can reproduce in Debian/sid. dhelp works fine (but requires to have httpd for seaching capability). Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100808143243.gb5...@debian.org
