]] Ian Zimmerman
| So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered.
| I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file
| a bug against any package in the output of the last command. How do
| maintainers feel about that?
I've never understood the
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 18:08 +, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org writes:
But again, as Thomas points out, you can address this use case with much
less per-package effort. A centralized ten-line shell script would be
enough to locate all the installed packages
Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org writes:
But again, as Thomas points out, you can address this use case with much
less per-package effort. A centralized ten-line shell script would be
enough to locate all the installed packages on the system that ship files
under /usr/share/doc not
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:08:50PM +, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
PDFs have titles too, and they can't be snarfed in any way I know of.
pdftk will dump the info dictionary for PDFs, but if you want something
a little less heavyweight, try:
lakeview ok % zgrep -a '^/Title'
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 02:08:28PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
OK, so would a debhelper patch implementing this be accepted?
Hardly so, as long as the patch is theoretical and discussed on -devel,
where not necessarily will get the attention of debhelper maintainer.
I suggest following the
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
After years and years of waiting for packages to register their
documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all
-- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite
frustrated:
On Sunday 08 August 2010, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Jeremy Have it generate the list of packages that don't
Jeremy register with doc-base... If any of them are mine I'll get
Jeremy them added though I don't know if the updates would make
Jeremy it into squeeze at this point but at least into
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:49:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
After years and years of waiting for packages to register their
documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all
-- I am not jidani,
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du dimanche 08 août 2010, vers 16:32,
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org disait :
So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered.
I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file
a bug against any package in the
This one time, at band camp, Ian Zimmerman said:
adduser
False positive.
st...@varinia:~$ dpkg -L adduser | grep -i htm
/usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/skel.other/index.html
I'd suggest getting rid of things under examples/
Cheers,
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Steve Langasek:
Steve non-desktop systems, I don't think we install a doc-base browser
Steve by default, and I have never seen a text-mode browser for
Steve doc-base documentation that I found worth using because browsing
Steve to /usr/share/doc/$package is always quicker. Unless you find a
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
After years and years of waiting for packages to register their
documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all
-- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite
frustrated.
Maybe if things were more automated and less painful,
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes:
If there is already a lintian check for this (as Vincent Bernat writes a
bit down the thread), does that mean the warning gets ignored or
overridden in all these cases?
windlord:~ lintian-info -t possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
N:
Russ possible/wishlist means that it's an info-level tag. Lintian
Russ doesn't display info-level tags by default, intentionally, to
Russ encourage more people to use it who don't want to see things that
Russ aren't required.
Russ I think wishlist is the correct severity for this.
For the
On 08/08/2010 10:53 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Russ possible/wishlist means that it's an info-level tag. Lintian
Russ doesn't display info-level tags by default, intentionally, to
Russ encourage more people to use it who don't want to see things that
Russ aren't required.
Russ I think
Thomas Goirand:
Thomas But as it stands, each time I run lintian with the -Ii flags,
Thomas and that it complains about the lack of doc-base registration, I
Thomas feel like it should have been more easy to deal with. I try to
Thomas be a good Debian citizen, so I still do it. But if we had only
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Steve non-desktop systems, I don't think we install a doc-base browser
Steve by default, and I have never seen a text-mode browser for
Steve doc-base documentation that I found worth using because browsing
Steve to
Stefan Fritsch:
Stefan This version produces false positives. I suspect it's because
Stefan you look at all file names and not just those under
Stefan /usr/share/doc
Stefan apache2.2-common
Stefan This does not contain any docs (but it contains html files). The
Stefan docs are in apache2-doc
Stephen Gran:
Stephen adduser
Stephen False positive.
Stephen st...@varinia:~$ dpkg -L adduser | grep -i htm
Stephen
/usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/skel.other/index.html
Stephen I'd suggest getting rid of things under examples/
Ok,
have_doc()
{
local
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org writes:
This reduces the list by 10, to 126. (There are more false positives as
noted in the sibling subthread, but currently I don't know what to do
about those).
To reduce the spamminess, the latest output is here:
http://primate.net/~itz/docpkg.txt
After years and years of waiting for packages to register their
documents with doc-base, and filing individual bugs with some (not all
-- I am not jidani, LOL) of those that didn't register, I am quite
frustrated:
[41]matica:doc$ pwd
/usr/share/doc
[42]matica:doc$ find -L . -name *.html -o
Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org wrote:
Hi,
How do maintainers feel about that?
Right now, frozen, I guess ;)
JB.
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org wrote:
So, out of 273 doc-containing packages on this system, just 70 bothered.
I feel a strong urge to put the commands in a script that will auto-file
a bug against any package in the output of the last command. How do
maintainers
Paul Wise:
Paul I personally stopped bothering with doc-base because I can't send
Paul those files upstream and have other distributions also benefit
Paul from them. IMO we should replace (like menu, defoma, etc) doc-base
Paul with a freedesktop.org standard for documentation registration.
Paul
Jeremy Have it generate the list of packages that don't
Jeremy register with doc-base... If any of them are mine I'll get them
Jeremy added though I don't know if the updates would make it into
Jeremy squeeze at this point but at least into squeeze+1.
So I did. I took a slightly
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