Re: Let's CENSOR it! (was: Uploaded anarchism 7.5-1 (source all) to master)
On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 04:12:17PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:43:41AM +0000, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> >
> > - We create an "etexts" section.
> >
> > PS: (This idea, or a very similar one, was proposed by Fabrizio Polacco a
> > long time ago).
>
> Exactly I proposed what has been already suggested today by someone
> else, to create a new "part" (not a section inside main) at the same
> level as main/contrib/non-free/non-US and create a separate CD image
> from it (maybe with contrib in it if there are room) which can be
> optionally added to the official CD set.
> I can even imagine to have a separate site for it, if it grows too much.
I hate to have to correct myself, but I was too quick into embracing
this and didn't tought well (nor checked th earchives)...
Thing sprung back into my mind after reading the excellent post from
Braakman.
What I proposed, and what I think should be done is to go one step
higher in the hierarchy and put etext (or docs, or whatever) at the same
level of the distributions.
One of the biggest problems I found in packaging texts (which made me
stopping doing that) was that the packages have to follow the
unstable/frozen/stable cicle, which may be correct for a sw package, but
it's not acceptable for a text, which doesn't have "bugs" to be fixed,
and maybe instead has to be kept up to date.
Having "etext" in the debian/dists directory could permit to "release"
them at a higher rate, f.e. every month.
Look at the Linux Gazette. In hamm there was up to number 25 and you
have to wait slink to become stable to get a CD with LG up to 33.
Same with the HOWTOs. They are updated every month, once per month, but
if you wait CDs (maybe because you don't have a Net cheap connection)
you are always months behind.
And don't try to sell the argument that the doc are in sync with the sw
in the same CD: you perfectly know that updateing docs is always the
last entry in the TODO list, and HOWTOs are cronically out of date.
Said that, we can have the official debian release include the most
recent etext CD (as a separate CD), while some cheap vendor can program
printing a new version every month, if we are precise releasing it
regularly.
fab
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