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Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
retitle 260659 libxaw7-dev: package should have a README file pointing to the docs in the xspecs package severity 260659 wishlist thanks On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:41:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Le jeu 22 jui 2004 à 05:29:02 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapoté sur son clavier : OK, gotcha: the READMEs should reference these guides, whereever they are. Yes, READMEs in -dev packages should at least point at the xspecs package (and the control files might even Suggest it). I agree. Given the changes that Fabio and I just made[1] to turn off building of the specs docs for binary-arch builds, what you asked for is now infeasible. (libxaw7-dev is arch-specific, but xspecs and the specs docs within it are binary-all.) I am repurposing this bug, as long as you don't object. [1] http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/changelog -- G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
Le mar 27 jui 2004 à 02:11:02 -0500, Branden Robinson a tapoté sur son clavier : I am repurposing this bug, as long as you don't object. No problem. Thanks, Samuel
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
Package: libxaw7-dev Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Severity: wishlist Hi, Currently, the documentation given along libxaw7-dev is quite poor. On the other hand, the XFree86 and X.org distributions provide a very useful documentation in its xc/doc/specs/Xaw directory, which can be built as text, html or ps. (actually, several of specs/* should get built installed in -dev packages, like Xt, Xmu, Xv, Randr, Render, ...) Regards, Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages libxaw7-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii libice-dev4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library deve ii libsm-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management ii libx11-dev4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Athena widget set library ii libxext-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu-dev4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm-dev4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X pixmap library development files ii libxt-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics development f ii x-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X protocol development files -- no debconf information
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
Hi, A friend of mine told me about the xspecs package. I can tell I would have never been able to find that by doing apt-file search Xaw and suchs, since the file I was looking for is called widgets.ps... He also told me that you wouldn't consider distributing specs files in corresponding -dev packages... That would help a lot, to my mind, but you're the maintainer, and I agree that this documentation is quite big for so installed a package. But at least those -dev packages should include some /usr/share/doc/package/README.Debian that tells that full documentation can be found in the xspecs package and give the precise file name in /usr/share/doc/xspecs (I wouldn't have found widget.ps by myself while looking for libXaw...), and add Suggest: xspecs to the control. Regards, Samuel
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. I don't.
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:26:09PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: A friend of mine told me about the xspecs package. I can tell I would have never been able to find that by doing apt-file search Xaw and suchs, since the file I was looking for is called widgets.ps... He also told me that you wouldn't consider distributing specs files in corresponding -dev packages... That would help a lot, to my mind, but you're the maintainer, and I agree that this documentation is quite big for so installed a package. But at least those -dev packages should include some /usr/share/doc/package/README.Debian that tells that full documentation can be found in the xspecs package and give the precise file name in /usr/share/doc/xspecs (I wouldn't have found widget.ps by myself while looking for libXaw...), and add Suggest: xspecs to the control. This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. I don't. So how are you getting it in the first place? -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
Le jeu 22 jui 2004 à 04:48:15 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapoté sur son clavier : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. I don't. So how are you getting it in the first place? On CD-ROMs. (don't trust the result of reportbug: it was done on my laptop which gets upgraded from times to times with a good internet connexion) I indeed used the hopefully-already-downloaded-from-x.org-via-a-good- internet-connection X11R6.7.0-src[1-7].tar.gz files to get to the specs...
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 04:48:15 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapot? sur son clavier : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. I don't. So how are you getting it in the first place? On CD-ROMs. (don't trust the result of reportbug: it was done on my laptop which gets upgraded from times to times with a good internet connexion) I indeed used the hopefully-already-downloaded-from-x.org-via-a-good- internet-connection X11R6.7.0-src[1-7].tar.gz files to get to the specs... So you don't want to download stuff off the net - instead you want to ... download stuff off the net? -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:19:35PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 05:10:55 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapot? sur son clavier : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 04:48:15 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapot? sur son clavier : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. I don't. So how are you getting it in the first place? On CD-ROMs. (don't trust the result of reportbug: it was done on my laptop which gets upgraded from times to times with a good internet connexion) I indeed used the hopefully-already-downloaded-from-x.org-via-a-good- internet-connection X11R6.7.0-src[1-7].tar.gz files to get to the specs... So you don't want to download stuff off the net - instead you want to ... download stuff off the net? What just happened is that I had the chance to have already downloaded something in which I knew where to find the specs, but that's not what I would expect from a distribution. And indeed it was *already* on my CD-ROMs, but there's was no possibility I could find where (ie in the xspecs package), I'm just asking for indications in -dev packages: just read my very first post. I can't speak for the -dev packages, but I don't really have much of an interest of retaining the current regime upstream. -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
Le jeu 22 jui 2004 à 05:10:55 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapoté sur son clavier : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:57:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Le jeu 22 jui 2004 ? 04:48:15 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapot? sur son clavier : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:32:01PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: On Thu 22 Jul 2004 04:17:38 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: This should ideally just be on a website somewhere or something. fd.o and X.Org have lots of bandwidth. I don't. So how are you getting it in the first place? On CD-ROMs. (don't trust the result of reportbug: it was done on my laptop which gets upgraded from times to times with a good internet connexion) I indeed used the hopefully-already-downloaded-from-x.org-via-a-good- internet-connection X11R6.7.0-src[1-7].tar.gz files to get to the specs... So you don't want to download stuff off the net - instead you want to ... download stuff off the net? What just happened is that I had the chance to have already downloaded something in which I knew where to find the specs, but that's not what I would expect from a distribution. And indeed it was *already* on my CD-ROMs, but there's was no possibility I could find where (ie in the xspecs package), I'm just asking for indications in -dev packages: just read my very first post.
Bug#260659: libxaw7-dev: Add specs documentation
Le jeu 22 jui 2004 à 05:29:02 +1000, Daniel Stone a tapoté sur son clavier : OK, gotcha: the READMEs should reference these guides, whereever they are. Yes, READMEs in -dev packages should at least point at the xspecs package (and the control files might even Suggest it). Regards, Samuel
