Hi, On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 07:54:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 20:52 +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > > Maybe in a next upload of debian-faq, we could get rid of this by-hand > > stuff. > > Afaik it's only used to get the FAQ content published at > > https://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ > > I think it would be better to send a dak patch turning the manual > processing for debian-faq by-hand into automatic by-hand processing. > There are multiple examples of automatic by-hand processing in dak, > so it should not be very hard to do that. > > > Now that we no longer offer our mirrors via ftp > > The ftp protocol is irrelevant here, since the documentation is > available on the mirrors irrespective of what protocol is used to > contact them or if the mirror is an offline one available on disk. > > > I guess most of the rationale for doing this is gone. > > I think the rationale remains the same; that the mirrors should have a > readable copy of some Debian documentation. If anything I would argue > that that documentation available there should be increased to also > include the Debian install guide and perhaps other documentation.
A, indeed, good point. And I agree with all other points (but unfortunately don't have time to write a dak patch). Luckily ftp-masters in the mean time did accept the faq upload. Thanks! Bye, Joost