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Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:52:55 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>> But since it is likely that [Debian] are going to remove the manuals
>> completely in future (due to them being GFDL)
> They already did: at least one Debian user told me in some forum (I
> think gnu.emacs.help) that "C-h F" and "C-h K" didn't work because the
> manuals were not there.
Emacs on Debian has always been split into several packages. The GFDL burp
caused them to refine the split such that the doc is now in a separate
package placed in the "non-free" section.
~-0% dpkg -l 'emacs21*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-==========-======================================================================
ii emacs21 21.4a+1-3 The GNU Emacs editor
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-3 The GNU Emacs editor's shared,
architecture dependent files
ii emacs21-common 21.4a+1-3 The GNU Emacs editor's shared,
architecture independent infrastructure
ii emacs21-common-non-dfsg 21.4a+1-1 GNU Emacs shared, architecture
independent, non-DFSG items
ii emacs21-el 21.4a+1-3 GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
un emacs21-nox <none> (no description available)
IIRC they also recently voted to consider GFDL'd manuals as free at the
condition that they do not add any extra clause.
In any case, the problem of Debian's multi-version support with info files
is unrelated to the GFDL. And we can blame Debian all we want, but I don't
think we have many alternatives to offer. Info is just currently not very
good at dealing with such problems.
Stefan
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, (continued)
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, Miles Bader, 2007/04/03
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, Davi Leal, 2007/04/03
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, David Kastrup, 2007/04/03
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/03
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, Chong Yidong, 2007/04/03
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, Johan Bockgård, 2007/04/03
- Re: [debian-vrms] Bug#221807: "please take this into consideration", David Diaz, 2007/04/04
- Re: [debian-vrms] Bug#221807: "please take this into consideration", Bdale Garbee, 2007/04/04
- Re: [debian-vrms] Bug#221807: "please take this into consideration", David Diaz, 2007/04/05
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, Davi Leal, 2007/04/04
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: arevert-xtra.texi xref gremlin, David Kastrup, 2007/04/03