Old user-guide in Natty?

Gunnar Hjalmarsson ubuntu at gunnar.cc
Fri Apr 15 13:39:15 UTC 2011


On 2011-04-15 14:42, Matthew East wrote:
> On 15 April 2011 12:56, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <ubuntu at gunnar.cc> wrote:
>> I have made a merge proposal to gnome-user-docs where the English
>> version of the old user-guide is included. Seems to work - the above
>> link is no longer broken on my box. :)
>>
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/gnome-user-docs/make/+merge/57662
>>
>> The translations might be added in the same manner, provided that the
>> distribution size restriction allows it.
> 
> Right, the problem with this solution is that we duplicate
> documentation on the system and increase the package size.

~$ du -s -h /usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide
1,4M	/usr/share/gnome/help/user-guide

The .deb file grows with 0.7 MiB, so it's not a huge amount of data we
are talking about. But I have no idea of how much available space there is.

> If there is another solution out there, we should try for it.

Sure.

> Translations are not so much of a problem because these are removed
> from the gnome-user-guide binary package during the build process, and
> put into language packs.

Ok, I see - I think. ;-)

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson




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