CDBS (lack of) documentation

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-03-07 at 01:42pm, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> > now update-rc.d doesn't restart anything.
> 
>  Oh right, it's just update-rc.d that you changed; nevermind
> 
> > if you find the CDBS documentation, please tell me so i can check 
> > myself... the only documentation i know of lives in denmark and 
> > expressed willingness to "have a look" :-)
> 
>  haha -- yeah, CDBS doc is best accessed with `rgrep /usr/share/cdbs`
>  :-)

Yeah, that's actually what I have always done.  For many years I didn't 
even know that CDBS had a documentation.  Then one day I realized that I 
was in fact the main developer of CDBS, and later that there was some 
documentation - by then horribly outdated.

I found the duckcorp unofficial documentation, and indeed that is in 
better shape than the official one.

Then later - last spring - it was pointed out to me at an Emdebian 
sprint in Cambridge that CDBS was the cause the the largest most complex 
build-dependency loop in Debian.  Because Ghostscript is used to 
generate documentation, and Ghostscript is packaged with CDBS.  That's 
when I stopped compiling the anyway horribly outdated documentation.

Plan is to merge the two different documentations, convert to Markdown, 
update, and release as a separate package.


Thanks for poking me to do that, with your joking about its state.


 - Jonas

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