Hi Osamu e.a., On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 11:37:50AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: <snip> > On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 09:45 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Wed 01 Feb 2023 at 08:38PM +01, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > > > > > FWIW: our beloved doc-debian [1] package, which ships stuff like > > > /usr/share/doc/debian/constitution.txt.gz and > > > /usr/share/doc/debian/social-contract.txt.gz is another one of those old > > > and > > > strange (by-hand stuff @ ftp-master, e.g.) packages in need of some extra > > > care. > > > I don't think I have time to do the necessary updates in time for the > > > freeze... > > > > > > The work needed consists of interfacing with our infrastructure, no coding > > > or text drafting necessary. > > > > I can adopt it if you would like. Let me know. > > If I understand correctly, we copy webwml source and create source for this > deb > package manually in advance. In a oversimplified sense: > > source of www.debian.org --> transform to create deb source. --> deb > > What is better is create a source deb package as the pristine source and > generate corresponding www.debian.org pages from binary deb package content > files with cron script on www-master.d.o like debian-policy etc. Then > updating > is simpler. > > deb source package --> deb binary packages --> www.debian.org > > Of course, this needs to be agreed by the party updating the constitution in > advance. <snip>
FWIW; I completely agree :) Thanks! Bye, Joost
