Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> writes: > On pe, 2010-08-20 at 17:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think a better approach would be to, once the document has settled >> down, publish it with a version number and give that version of the >> document a permanent URL. So, for instance, we would publish DEP-5 1.0 >> and give it a URL something like http://dep.debian.net/DEP-5/1.0 at >> which it would always be found. If we publish a new version of the >> document, the new version would be put at >> http://dep.debian.net/DEP-5/1.1, but the old version wouldn't be >> changed. > DEPs are not supposed to change after they're approved, so it should be > a new DEP rather than DEP-5/1.1, but that's a trivial detail. > How would that tie in with updating it via the normal policy process? I > thought we'd keep the file in the debian-policy package for future > updates. I was assuming that's how we'd get to a 1.1 version. I haven't read DEP-0 recently, though, so I guess I have a poor grasp of how this is supposed to work. I'll go review it. If we pick up the files in debian-policy, then wherever we publish them from should really publish the versions from the debian-policy package. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
