On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:42:13PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > Mmm, probably we should consider the same sort of maintainance we have > > > > for point releases in stable (and so branching cvs whenever needed). > > > [...] > > There were documentation point release issues which were totally > different subject from the web page update frequency issue. Current > point release policy does not allow update of documentation *.deb > package in the stable distribution. This is because these updates are > not "security" issue nor severe "usability" issue. It was considered to > be just minor updates to fix glitches by the RM. > > Javi, and I too, had great doubts on this pedantic rule about "stable > point release" since it has no real benefit while enforcing to release > known bad documents just to satisfy the letter of the release policy. > > So the best stable user can do is to use extensive use of APT system to > get packages from unstable or use web to get documents from the normal > web page section. >
I agree. Not allowing correction of documents is IMHO a bad practice. I find also Joey's latest updates a bit too conservative in some way. Another area of interest for that is kernel images, but that's OT here. > > By the way, Francesco, we may want to raise documentation update issues > during stable point release, once the dust settles over DDP. > > Osamu > Oh sure, those were just my general considerations, not related to DDP (re)startup. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
