On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, 07:15:26 LHST, Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:26:15 +0100 > schreef Marek Buras <[email protected]>: > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 08:16:53PM +1100, Karl Goetz wrote: > > > Ideally all packages we change would have one (and I guess all that > > > we create; though iirc we have something doco'd about that). > > We have 2 wiki pages about packaging [1], [2]. They should get cleaned > up, updated and possibly merged. Indeed, i will make a note to look at them though depending on how different they are it may be best to merge them gradually. > > > I don't know if we have a template for README.gNewSense but it would > > > probably be worth having a template in our wiki with a few example > > > headings to get people on the right track which can be referenced > > > by our packaging documents. > > I haven't kept to a particular form. Some are plain text (e.g. > linux-2.6), for some I used a little bit of markup to make it look > prettier (e.g. linux-latest-2.6). Pretty sure mine are a mix of rest and plain text too (if any of them survive :)). > Sometimes someone comes along and asks what the difference between > Debian and gNewSense is. We should have a wiki page that lists our > changes. I was thinking we could use README.gNewSense files to generate interesting thought, i am wondering if pulling the info out of the wili at source package build time would be a better way to do it. > that automatically if we use a structured format (e.g. control file or perhaps the machine readable copyright format to ease moving text between those files. > style) for it. E.g. for linux-2.6: ... > We could also refer to this page for the package comparison field in > our census page [3]. Another good idea. Thanks, kk _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
