[Pkg-jed-commit] r472 - jed/trunk/debian

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2007-01-10 16:06]:

> Looking at info/jed.info, I see that it was generated with makeinfo 1.55,
> which is quite old compared with the version currently in etch (4.8).
> However, I think that this difference in versions does not explain why the
> jed info files have the *.{n}in extension.  I would guess that this is
> related to the MS-DOS ancient times when file extensions were limited to
> three characters.  
> 
> At any rate, I do not know where to find the source texinfo file jed.ti.  It
> would be quite important to include it in the package because we should
> distribute the source along the binaries.  Also, we need to check for
> DFSG-compliance of the document.

The info file says:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
File: jed.info,  Node: Top,  Next: Introduction,  Up: (dir)

   Note!!! This document is nolonger maintained.  See jed/doc/*.txt
   for more current documentation.

   Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 John E. Davis
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

There are several problems with this info documentation: (1) It is old. 
(2) It is no longer maintained.  (3) Up-to-date docs are (apparently)
provided elsewhere. (4) The source is not available.  (5) We do not know its
exact licensing terms.

Items (4) and (5) alone would be enough removing the info documentation from
the package, acoording to the Debian standards .  I propose that we do that.
Any objections?

-- 
Rafael