Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> which adds a russian debconf translation and registers documentation in >> section "TeX", consistent with the other packages in etch. > > Consistent with what other packages in etch?
The teTeX packages at least, and I hope some other TeX-related packages, too. I'm not aware of texlive registering its documentation with doc-base. > According to the doc-base > documentation, doc-base sections are supposed to follow the Debian Menu > subpolicy, and /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/menu-policy.txt.gz on my system > mentions no Apps/TeX section. Yes, that's true. But it's also true that doc-base is basically unmaintained and has a five-year old bug, #109431 (and see also #171955), in which the need to change the available sections is acknowledged by everyone involved. Meanwhile, the Debian menu structure has been rewritten at least once, but never with documentation in mind. Therefore I[1] believe that it is inadequate to base doc-base sections on Debian menu sections, at least at the moment. Since nobody seems to care for doc-base, I also don't expect any centralized policy decision for separate doc-base grouping in the near future. Moreover, TeX does *not* fit into Apps/Text in the menu system, neither - in my view - in the current system, nor in the new system according to debian-policy proposal #361418: Text Text oriented tools like dictionaries, OCR, translation and text analysis software etc. kdrill, stardict, turkey If at all, it rather fits into office, but I fear *I* would never look for it there. Given the frequent wishes to have a separate section and the practically non-existing policy for doc-base, we decided to use one. This also means to try to fix the doc-base bug by simply showing that an alternative is viable - the usually preferred way of changing policy decisions in Debian. Regards, Frank [1] and others, see e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2005/10/msg00041.html, Bill is the proponent of the new menu structure -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
