On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 02:04:08PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:52:58PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > > However, I would like to amend the above. (BTW, is it a Policy? I > > couldn't find the word "frozen" in the Policy Manual. ;-) IMHO, the above > > rule should not be applied to pure documentation packages, including (but > > not limited to) all the Debian documentations and the various Linux HOWTOs > > package. The reasons are rather obvious: > > > > 1. I don't think "bugs" can crept into a text document. Spelling errors > > or grammatical errors, maybe, but I doubt it. Besides, even if there > > are some spelling errors, they definitely won't affect the system. ;-)
> Pure textual changes can't have bugs, I agree. But don't change the > packaging infrastructure or backends - new bugs might creep up there. Agreed, except in the case where the upstream documentation structure changes. Anyhow, the maintainer is responsible to check the new package *very* carefully (e.g. check for dangling links in HTML documents) to make sure it is bug free. :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep smiling! *^_^* Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://olvc.home.ml.org/ or http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/OLVC/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
