Christian Schwarz writes: > Hi folks! re
> So I suggest the following policy. Note, that this is just a summary, not > the actual text. > > > The unification of Debian documentation is being carried out via > HTML. However, we'll still provide GNU info documentation, where > available. > > Thus, every package that contains documentation in a convertable > format has to provide HTML documentation. > > The documentation will be distributed via several packages: > > foo-doc-html for HTML docs > foo-doc-info for GNU info docs (where available) > foo-doc-xxx for other formats (only where appropriate) > > (An example for the last case would be "DVI" documentation for TeX > related packages.) > > If the documentation files in all available formats do not require > more than 100k of disk space _together_, they may be included in the > "main" package. Otherwise, the will have to be distributed in > seperate packages, one for each format. > > Any comments? I don't like the idea of splitting packages that much. It increses the confusion for users. For new users it is incredible difficult to install Debian because of >1000 packages. And for my feeling the documentation belongs to the package itself. I don't want to install another package just because I need some documention. OTOH I do understand your way. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / The good thing about standards is / / that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .