On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 04:00:42PM -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > Note that although the subject says "Modified 20260401", > this was actually mailed on 5/1. The full diff -wu: > > --- _01 2026-02-02 21:21:51.646238002 -0800 > +++ _04 2026-05-01 15:29:54.592950190 -0700 > @@ -1,101 +1,143 @@ > Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > >
Hi Will (and anybody else who cares) Yes, the FAQ is posted on the first of the month if I practically can. Ideally it comes fairly near the start of the posts on that day on page one of the web archive. That keeps it visible. Following a couple of edits mid-month generating threads on the list - I try to make any consequential edits on the first of the month. Just sometimes I'll spot a typo mid month and correct it next month. The message subject is hand typed - obviously, you can see mistakes - but always shows the last date modified. In your diff, you've taken three months apart - and, actually there were changes. (That's why the last modified date was 20260401 in the subject of this month's post). The Git repository is on Debian's Salsa. It probably needs reorganisation. Ideally, there should be unified diffs per month from whenever I first started this - maybe. Or a major versioning per year - or something. I started doing diffs against each month but it's lapsed - the number of substantive changes is small. Advice gratefully received as to how you'd like to see ~75 lines of changes over, say, five years. And yes, the quickest way to post this is to pick up last month's copy if there have been no changes and re post it. It's lazy but quick and since I've so far been the main contributor, nobody else has complained about my monthly editing practice. There, you caught me out :) Is the FAQ useful** - maybe. is it worth worrying about on a major scale, probably not. I'm currently worrying more about the loss of the AMOC in the lifetime of the next couple of generations, perhaps. Hopefully, this helps, With every good wish to all list readers, as ever, Andy ([email protected]) ** I have recently pointed people to it when they've asked for posts or contributions to be removed from Debian. Practically, especially with the rise of web crawlers, that's now impossible. It's also fairly unlikely that you can be scrubbed from the 'Net if you've kept the same email address for many years. Any real expectation of privacy must also be lost if your email provider has archived your mailbox contents and someone has used them to train an AI Large Language Model without your knowledge.
