hi vincent, On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 06:48:18PM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > In the mysql manpage, it is referred to the "HTML documents installed with > the package". Where are > they ? I was also unable to find a mysql-doc (or so) package, so I don't know > more about mysql than I > did few minutes before. > > Would it be possible to include documentation in a -doc package ? Would you > then fix the manpages ?
unfortunately, we are not able to provide the mysql online documentation,
as mysql's licensing prohibits redistribution in debian. we used to
have a mysql-nonfree source package that provided the documentation,
but even this was deemed not possible after further examination of the
licensing terms. there have been a number of bug reports and
threads about this, but unfortunately i don't have any on hand
to point you at.
so, i guess at this point, we can do two things with this bug:
- retitle it "manpages should not reference non-existant documentation"
and close it when the manpages are updated to inform the user of the
situation
- retitle it "please provide documentation", which we can then tag
upstream and wontfix, which will serve as a reference for others.
which would you prefer?
sean
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