Hi, On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 02:05:08AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 01:36:14PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 11:54:58AM +0100, Tom M wrote: > > > > > > The Linux Documentation Project [1] is mentioned in Debian's docs, often > > > as the > > > only source of general GNU/Linux docs. As far as I can see, it is largely > > > an > > > outdated resource; floppy disks are regularly mentioned, there are links > > > to > > > software tarballs, etc. In fact, none of the "most popular Linux documents > > > and manuals" [2] have seen updates in the last 13 years, some as many as > > > 20. > > > (And they are 2 clicks from the front page!) I don't think we are doing > > > anyone > > > a favour by mentioning these, and should consider other sources. > > > > Yup; very true. Submitting bugreports could be a fist step in solving this > > embarrassing problem. > > Yes true > > These are more or less historic interest document :-) > > Now that we have "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" > https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#debian-handbook > and resources such as wikipedia.org, we can skip most of these. > > Maybe moving these to > https://www.debian.org/doc/ddp#other > may be an idea. > > But I am a bit reluctant to make such an action since it labels LDP as > old/outdated/... etc. which are all negative. Does someone have any > positive attitude change suggestions?
Fix the LDP documents, I guess. Otoh, I don't believe e.g. the "Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO" could _ever_ be up to date; wiki's are more easy to update. I agree it's a pity; I don't have a very positive message indeed :( Anyway, as said, a bug to the www.debian.org pseudo package suggesting a change to https://www.debian.org/doc/ would be the way forward, imho. The change you suggested (moving references to LDP documents from https://www.debian.org/doc/ over to https://www.debian.org/doc/ddp#other) indeed is a good idea. Bye, Joost -- "This particular group of cats is mostly self-herding." -- Bdale Garbee http://mdcc.cx/ ★ Tilburg, Низоземска ★ http://ad1810.com/
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