Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > I am concerned that DocBook is much too complex to be used for Debian > policy. We need to people to write patches without trouble and we do > not have many editors available for fixing the XML. Debiandoc-SGML > virtue is that it is simple.
They seem essentially identical to me? We've had copyright-format in the Policy distribution for a while, and it's never seemed any different to me (as someone not horribly familiar with XML markup) from editing Policy. The alternative, I guess, would be to use Markdown for the whole thing, but I think it's worthwhile to have sections and internal links and a bit more formatting than Markdown gives us. Anyway, my understanding (see earlier messages in this bug) is that the maintainer of DebianDoc-SGML is actively trying to transition people away from it, so I think it's not viable to stay on it even if it's better along some axes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
