[Bug 5302] sysvinit: new changes from Debian require merging

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:39:49PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 13:11 +0000, bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.ubuntu.com
> wrote:
> > ------- Additional Comments From amu at tr.debian.net  2005-01-12 13:11 UTC -------
> >     No changes from 2.86-5.  Used the .ds naming convention 
> >     that is suggested for packages which need to have their 
> >     docs removed. 
> > 
> Did I miss something?  Why do packages need to have their docs removed?
> I thought we were considering the GFDL "free enough"...
>
> Actually, on that note, would it be valid for us to put back removed
> GFDL documentation; for example autoconf had its purged recently (into
> non-free autoconf-doc which we haven't got in our archive!)  In that
> case I think we should sync it from non-free, or simply put the package
> back together again.

We aren't kicking out doc-only packages which have GFDL documentation in
them, but I don't think it's worth the headache at this point to diverge
.orig.tar.gz in order to restore it where it's been removed.

If possible, we should just package the documentation separately if we want
it.

-- 
 - mdz