[CCing debian-www as requested but I'm not subscribed] Le 31/05/2012 00:34, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Sat, May 26, 2012 at 03:03:06AM +0100, Philip Ashmore a écrit : >> >> What I noticed by its absence was that no-one linked to official Debian >> policy detailing the choices made and their justification. >> >> Then it struck me that if such a document existed, it would be subject to >> change as Debian policy itself evolved, making any old links nonsensical or >> misleading.
I also think it would be a great thing. > Dear Philip, > > we publish the Debian Policy with the following procedure, that > does not allow permalinks. > > 1) The Policy is developed as a native Debian package. > > 2) Updates of the Policy are published by uploading new > versions of the package. > > 3) www.debian.org extracts the HTML build of the policy from > the latest debian-policy pakcage, and places it under > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > > This helps the Policy team and the WWW team to work without having to learn > each other's build systems, but this means that new versions override old > ones. > > If you have a concrete proposition for a procedure that is as convenient, but > allows to keep old versions somewhere, you can propose it on > debian-...@lists.debian.org, What about a layout similar to this one : http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/@package_version@/[doc extracted] with the following symlinks in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy: "last" or "current" -> `last-version-extracted` X.Y.Z -> last X.Y.Z.T (so that policy are reachable without the minor revision) "squeeze" -> `version included in squeeze` We can also have links for stable/testing/... and/or for number of debian release (release-6.0 -> ...) And anything that does not match the first level is redirected : debian-policy/(.*)$ -> debian-policy/last/$1 with a 304 HTTP redirect so that current links keep the same actual meaning This would allow to target a specific version of the policy in links. Regards, Vincent > but please consider that there can be legitimate > objections to your proposition, and that unless you have time to work on > implementation and maintainance by yourself, your proposition will need to be > exciting enough to decide other volunteers to work on. > > Cheers, > -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pkgs: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- 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/4fc7181f.3090...@free.fr
