Bug#403921: outdated files in /usr/share/doc/nautilus

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On 12/20/06, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 18:55 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a
> écrit :
> > Package: nautilus
> > Version: 2.16.1-1
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > These files should either be removed or updated:
> >
> > * AUTHORS (outdated)
>
> I don't think it is that much outdated, the people who developed
> nautilus 2.4 are still the nautilus developers today.
>
> > * README (only relevant for those who build from src)
>
> We generally ship such documents nevertheless. Plus, there is some
> relevant information about the mailing list and bugzilla.

Is it that much of a waste of time to just delete the irrelevant info?
I often look into the README files, often as a starter if I'm not
familiar with the package, or to check if there's some Debian-specific
stuff in case of README.Debian, and too often it happens that these
documents are outdated. That's of course very much the case with
upstream stuff who mostly only care about the src and not the
supporting docs.

Maybe upstream README files shouldn't be included in Debian, and so do
changelogs...

> > * THANKS (outdated)
>
> 2.10 ? Is it really outdated? :)

This is release 2.16 (and 2 other releases skipped) and it could only
help if such info is included too. Such info would validate help the
usefulness THANKS, unless it's lost or nobody cares.

thanks for the reply...