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Re: no C-h i m emacs ??


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: no C-h i m emacs ??
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:32:45 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

Glenn Morris wrote:
> In particular:
>    
>    consider adding a comment to one of the several Debian bug reports
>    that exist about this issue, eg
>      http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685933
>    to encourage them to improve the way they handle this, which has been
>    confusing Emacs users on Debian for 7+ years now.

Alternatively if GNU were to release the info pages without the
requirement of invariant sections then those docs could be packaged in
the free section.

> [IMO: if Debian want to rip out the manuals, they need to replace them
> with stubs that say where to get the real manuals.]

This is almost exactly the argument that GNU has used for years
against Debian.  For years GNU has argued that Debian promotes nonfree
software for exactly this issue.  And here it would exactly the same
thing with parties reversed.  Oh the irony!

It is sad that two of the most freedom promoting organizations are at
opposite ends of this documentation issue.  Both are principled.  But
with slightly different principles.  Unfortunately users are caught in
the middle between them.  Sigh.

Bob



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