Santiago Vila wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> +** Packaging >> + >> + The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or >> + "back-cover" texts, so that in Debian it may now be included in the >> + diffutils package, rather than in the separate diffutils-doc package. > > Hmm, would be possible not to mention specific Debian packages? > > The thing is naturally not that the manual is not in diffutils-doc > anymore but instead that the manual will finally be in "main" (as > opposed to non-free). > > The problem with the above wording is that diffutils-doc binary > package might still exist. In fact, my current plan is to put the info > manual in "diffutils" and the HTML manual in "diffutils-doc", as I do > with several other GNU packages. > > My suggestion: > > "[...] so that in Debian it may now be included in the main section."
Thanks. I prefer that, too. I've also fixed my s/not/now/ typo. >From 6ee4fafeabc26bf50b1b7b6d5decdf8c781dfc38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:13:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: diffutils' texi-derived doc may now be in debian's "main" section * NEWS (Packaging): Mention the "no front/back-cover" change. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2ef515f..271872e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ GNU diffutils NEWS -*- outline -*- diff and sdiff have a new option --ignore-trailing-space (-Z). +** Packaging + + The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or "back-cover" + texts, so that it may now be included in Debian's "main" section. + + * Noteworthy changes in release 3.1 (2011-08-10) [stable] ** Bug fixes -- 1.7.7.rc0.362.g5a14
