On Wed, 24 May 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > [_Please_ CC: any replies to -doc or to me, I'm not on -boot] > > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:24:22PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > "J.A. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Upgrading info is available at > > > http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/ > > > > Um, why not improve the release notes rather than write a competing > > document? Then it could be published official at www.debian.org ? > > For those who don't know, I'm the Release Notes maintainer for potato. I > haven't seen > http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/UPGRADING.html until > after seeing this mail, actually I didn't even hear about such a document. > What a lack of coordination! I appologize if this is my fault.
So there actually are release notes? Excellent! I did ask & post several times on -devel, but was never told that there was some "official" initiative. > Maybe I > should be subscribed to -boot... but that would be a big bunch of e-mail to > sift through searching for release-notes related material... When I asked on -boot, I was told that upgrade stuff definately wasn't discussed there, and that I should post to -devel. -doc seems the most appropriate; I'm also subscribed there. > Anyway, we should merge the useful stuff from the other doc to the official > Release Notes. I agree completely. > Anne, I see there's a HTML and a plain text version - are > they perhaps generated from a single SGML source? No, they're actually from a cpp-preprocessed HTML file and lynx -dump; see upgrade-i386/source/doc-src. I use the CPP preprocessing mainly to get multiple $ARCH variants from one source. I don't know SGML (but I suppose it's not too different from HTML), but does SGML have a built-in option to do this? If not, preprocessed SGML might be an option. > The release notes are in > /boot-floppies/documentation/release-notes.sgml in the debian-boot CVS tree, > that's DebianDoc SGML. Will you please look at it? If you have > straightforward patches, commit them or send them over; but do tell me if > there are major structural changes needed to add stuff from your document. I know CVS as far as documented on http://cdimage.debian.org/ch32.html , but I don't seem to be able to access the release notes with that method. What paths etc. are needed? > > I'd be happy to give you CVS access to the boot-floppies CVS area > > where the release notes source is kept. That's okay, then I'll finally have a good reason to learn CVS ;-) >From what I've heard, CVS "should" be done with/over ssh. Do you need my ssh identity.pub ? Regards, Anne Bezemer
