Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 8 Dec 2000 22:00:01 +0000 From vertrieb@oeko.net Fri Dec 08 16:00:01 2000 Return-path: Received: from maple.oeko.net (mail2.oeko.net) [194.122.33.3] by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 144VYe-0000oZ-00; Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:00:01 -0600 Received: (qmail 18969 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2000 21:59:58 -0000 Received: from oak.oeko.net (194.122.33.8) by maple.oeko.net with SMTP; 8 Dec 2000 21:59:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 15726 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Dec 2000 21:59:58 -0000 Date: 8 Dec 2000 21:59:58 -0000 Message-ID: <20001208215958.15725.qmail@oak.oeko.net> From: Toni Mueller Subject: developers-reference: package has unneeded external links To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.2.10 Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: developers-reference Version: 2.7.2 Severity: wishlist Hello, I think that the load of Debian developer's documentation which is intertwined quite a bit should be packaged together instead of separately, and external links should be converted to relative links so that a local install of these documents can work. Currently, although I have most if not all these packages installed, when the text in one package refers to a passage that is in another package (ie, developers-reference and packaging-manual), then instead of taking my local copy, my browser tries to go out to the web. This is annoying and even counterproductive when one is offline (laptop !). It also makes reading this documentation from a file system more difficult and tends to demand a running web server. I actually don't see why/how these documentation snippets are not forced together, not even by Depends, since most of it doesn't make sense alone, and tarring all these together into one package should be easy. Best Regards, --Toni++ -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux oak 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown