Bill Allombert <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:59:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> sergey <[email protected]> writes:

>> I do appreciate the problem that you're trying to solve here, but I
>> don't think that Policy is the place to do it.

And am now closing this bug on those grounds.

>> If you run across a document that's for end-users, that doesn't contain
>> a note about what Debian releases it applies to, and where you think
>> such a note would be useful, please do file a bug against that package.
>> I think that's an entirely appropriate request.

> Agreed.

>> If the document is on the web and you can't figure out what the
>> corresponding Debian package is, well, that's actually another bug --
>> documents maintained as a Debian package should probably say that
>> somewhere to aid bug filing against the web version.  But you can file
>> the bug against www.debian.org, noting that you can't tell what package
>> it should be filed against, and they can reassign it for you.

>> I'm marking this bug as wontfix but will leave it open in case other
>> folks disagree with my reasoning and would like to argue that Policy
>> should do something here.

> It appears that a "Debian Documentation Policy" (see
> <http://www.debian.org/doc/docpolicy>) exists. I suggest that this
> report be reassigned to this project if at all possible.  CCing
> [email protected] for advice.

There has been no further discussion of this, so I'm going ahead and
closing this bug as rejected against Policy.  If anyone on the
documentation policy side has a queue to which it can be reassigned and
wants to pick it up, please feel free to reopen and reassign.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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