On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 03:52:58PM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote:
> However, I would like to amend the above. (BTW, is it a Policy? I
> couldn't find the word "frozen" in the Policy Manual. ;-) IMHO, the above
> rule should not be applied to pure documentation packages, including (but
> not limited to) all the Debian documentations and the various Linux HOWTOs
> package. The reasons are rather obvious:
>
> 1. I don't think "bugs" can crept into a text document. Spelling errors
> or grammatical errors, maybe, but I doubt it. Besides, even if there
> are some spelling errors, they definitely won't affect the system. ;-)
>
> 2. Keeping the documentation up-to-date is a much higher priority.
> If we were to ship out-of-date or even obsolete documentation,
> then we might just as well not include them.
> Speaking as a Linux user, I would be quite disappointed to find
> that Debian ships outdated documentation just because of the "freeze".
Pure textual changes can't have bugs, I agree. But don't change the
packaging infrastructure or backends - new bugs might creep up there.
just my .02
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