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

[Jörg Sommer]

Hello Rafael,

Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Fri 19. Jan, 16:50 (+0100):
> * 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 (2) It is no longer maintained.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.

Why do you think it is not licenced under the terms of GPL?

I don't know about the source. I wouldn't require a source for an info
file. Yes, you can build the info file from a different source, but I've
also written man pages by hand.

> 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?

I was just about to say the information in the info page is not provided
elsewhere, but this is false. The html pages show the same information
and the tex file might be the source of the info page.

I'm against removing the info page. I would suggest, we ask John what's
the state of the info page.

Bye, Jörg.
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