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Re: Intent to "hijack" the dhelp package

Subject: Re: Intent to "hijack" the dhelp package
From: Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:30:10 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.doc, linux.debian.devel
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:37:47AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Esteban Manchado Velázquez 2006-09-25 
> <20060925195800.GA2737@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     I have even rewritten dhelp_parse, one of the main utilities, in Ruby 
> > [4]
> > (mostly because it's a huge PITA finding and fixing bugs in a largely text
> > processing program... written in C). It maintains compatibility with the
> > documentation database, so it's a drop-in replacement. At least it should 
> > :-)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if you do rewrite stuff, could you try to make the integration with
> doc-base more tight? The .dhelp files it writes out seem rather
> unnecessary given that we already have /usr/share/doc-base/*.

    OK. That will probably go to the TODO, once we start making changes. There
are lots of things I would like to change/fix...

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