discuss: Automatically building the HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Automatically building the HOWTOs
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
14 Oct 2001 15:33:37 -0000
Message-Id: <20011014163318.A11429@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:03:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:23:17PM +0200, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> > Yes, I noticed that in the latest Debian release the HOWTOs were
> > rather old. From what I understand the r2, r3 etc releases are
> > for bug fixes only. Would it be possible toregard outdated HOWTOs
> > as a bug and makes such updates in every new release of Debian?
>
> In fact they're normally reserved for release-critical bug fixes only
> (that is, security holes, uninstallable packages, completely broken
> packages, and that sort of thing). Documentation is often an exception,
> though, as after all it's unlikely to break anything.
>
> I'll see if I can find out if we're doing a 2.2r4 and propose an update.
I just got the Big No from our stable release manager (whose job it is
to be conservative). Sorry ...
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
