discuss: status of document
Subject:
Re: status of document
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
12 Dec 2003 09:49:51 -0000
Message-Id: <20031212094949.GJ16285@riva.ucam.org>
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:57:21PM -0700, doug jensen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:46:46PM +0530, rahul wrote:
> > The documentation license usually allows the document to be updated
> > without the author's explicit permission. You can go ahead and submit
> > the revised document.
>
> That would be a great way to close bugs, but I'm not sure I would be
> comfortable with changing someone elses document in that way.
> Has that ever been done before, without the doc being declared
> unmaintained first? The document would be getting an updated date, but
> only one part would be updated. Who is the maintainer at that point?
> It seem like there could be alot of issues involved.
I generally avoided changing documents in the Debian packages for
exactly these reasons.
> > I would like to know the number of bugs filed against each document if
> > thats easy to produce
>
> It's about 39 bugs (less three or four that are Debian specific).
> Usually just one per document. You can have a look at:
> http://bugs.debian.org/doc-linux
You might want these two actually:
http://bugs.debian.org/src:doc-linux
http://bugs.debian.org/src:doc-linux-nonfree
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
