Re: The incorrect supplier of disks in the list of Debian for Russia - Неверный поставщик дисков в списке Дебиан для России

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| ivanov ivan, 07.10.2011 21:46:31 +0400 |=-
> I want to buy DVD disks with Debian 6.02 in Russia.
> I wanted to order it on books.ru, but there there is no last version.
> Even the old version isn't present on sale.
> I ask to exclude this supplier from the list of suppliers of Debian.

Since the site is in Russian, I thought you'd like another data point 
:).

There are Debian DVDs sold, but the latest listed are (1) version 
4.0r4 and (2) not available.


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Re: Bug#640737: [copyright-format] Format URL and installation on www.debian.org

[Charles Plessy]

tag 640737 + patch
thanks

Dear all,

to summarise:

 * http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format// will
   allow the copyright-format specification to become a multi-page HTML 
document if
   it gets significantly expanded, but on the other hand, somebody downloading 
the
   current one-page spec will get a file called ‘index.html’.

 * Rebuilding the distributed document at each upload may cause it to change in
   layout or in checksum, but on the other hand ensures that it is continuously
   buildable.

My point of view is that the copyright-format specification is not likely to be
enlarged to the point of neeeding to separate its chapters in different files
(there is SPDX…) and that the source document uses only simple DocBook 4.5 tags
which makes it very unlikely to become unbuildable with the default XSL
stylesheet it uses.  Moreover, I am biased by the culture in my profession to
not change even a single comma of a published work,  so my personnal preference
would have been to distribute files like copyright-format-1.0.html, committed
with their source in the debian-policy Git repository. This said, this point of
view had no support from other participants in this discussion.

So I propose to do the following, in line with the other propositions.

 a) Apply the attached patch to point at 
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ in the spec.

 b) When the 1.0 version is finalised, (re)build at each upload 
copyright-format/copyright-format.xml,
copyright-format/copyright-format-1.0.xml, and so on for the future 
revisions.

 c) Distribute the versionned and unversionned HTML and text builds in the
debian-policy binary package.  (Assuming that if since nobody proposed to 
stop
distributing the unversionned build, it is that people want it to stay).

I will propose a patch to implement the building and distribution of released
versions and current draft, but before doing so, I would like to know if it
would be acceptable to have them in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy, or if the
published versions should be in a separate directory.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles 
>From f1458e166554bcb1928e7d74e54af5ea873d8dc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy 
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:22:22 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Use
 http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
 as URI.

---
 copyright-format/copyright-format.xml |8 
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml b/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
index d6790aa..c4e47b3 100644
--- a/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
+++ b/copyright-format/copyright-format.xml
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 Format
 
   Required single line: URI of the format specification, such as:
-  http://www.debian.org/doc/copyright-format/1.0
+  http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
 
   
 
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
 
   
 Example header paragraph
-Format: 
+Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/;
 Upstream-Name: SOFTware
 Upstream-Contact: John Doe 
 Source: http://www.example.com/software/project
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ also delete it here.
 A possible debian/copyright file for the program
 X Solitaire distributed in the Debian source package
 xsol:
-