On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:26:19PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Josip> Surprisingly enough, we have yet to put any mention of
> Josip> doc-base into the Policy. A lot of the packages that need it
> Josip> use it by now[1], so it appears to be working properly. It
> Josip> would be useful if it was "legalized" by the Policy Manual so
> Josip> that new maintainers can't miss it for example, and that
> Josip> existing maintainers can't ignore it saying "it's not in
> Josip> Policy, so what if it's a good idea!".
>
> If doc-base is really stable and working now, and if it is
> deemed desirable to work it into policy, shouldn't the interface be,
> umm legalized as well? If all packages that are installing
> documentation are supposed to register with doc-base, then the
> registration API should be in policy.
>
> I suggest that /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.sgml be added
> as a doc-base sub policy in the policy package itself, and using that
> registration API be strongly recommended in the main policy
> document (perhaps with a informative footnote that mentions that in
> the future this recommendation may be converted into a requirement).
That seems logical, to document the API. (Even regardless of bugs in
install-docs, heh heh :)
I'll proofread it, perhaps reorganize it a little bit, and send it over for
comments.
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