On 2012-10-12, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > I know that org-drill has its own webpage with good > documentation. The point is, that the Debian maintainer (or Fedora, > Gentoo, ...) just takes the org- mode tarball and packages > everything found in there. It would be an extra burden for the > maintainer to go out to every single contrib site and somehow add > the documentation in the package. > > It would be much easier IMHO, if the org-mode developers would not > only distribute the code of contribs but also their documentation. I > would even say that distributing code without documentation is kind > of a bug. > > It would even be an extra advantage, if you could encourage the > contrib developers to provide documentation in info format.
As the Debian maintainer for org-mode, I cannot agree more with Thomas: since contrib is *distributed* in the regular org-mode tarball, its documentation should be found in there as well. Cheers, --SD