[Pkg-bazaar-maint] ship developers docs or not?

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Aug 28 22:27:00 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 00:04 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * John Arbash Meinel [Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:48:23 -0500]:
> 
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > > The Debian packages for bzr currently disable shipping the developer
> > > documentation in HTML form. I think this is unhelpful, as there is API
> > > documentation and so on there.
> 
> > > I can enable this for the bazaar-vcs.org packages alone, but thats only
> > > a fraction of our userbase, so my preference is to have it enabled for
> > > Debian and Ubuntu too.
> 
> > > -Rob 
> 
> > It makes sense to me to ship the developer docs.
> 
> > But I'm not a debian packager.
> 
> If my memory does not fail on me, I recall disabling them after a
> comment by one of the main developers hinting that it didn't make much
> sense to ship them. I'm afraid I can't remember who.
> 
> In any case, I'm happy to reintroduce them if that's what upstream
> wants, which seems to be the case.
> 
> I will do that tomorrow when uploading 0.90.

Cool. We have another issue that has come in since rc1 - the doc
reorganisation.

Specifically, what to do with languages in the packaging - should we
ship just english for now (trivial to do), or split out the docs by
language, or ... ?

-Rob

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