Sunday·10·March·2013
Up to date Aptitude Documentation Online //at 12:51 //by abe
Aptitude ships documentation in 7 languages as HTML files. However the latest version available online was 0.4.11.2 from 2008 and hosted on the server by the previous, now unfortunately inactive Aptitude maintainer, and only covered 5 languages.
This lack of up to date online documentation even caused others to put more up to date versions online. Nevertheless they age, too, and the one I’m aware is not up to date for Wheezy.
So the idea was born to keep an up to date version online on Aptitude’s Alioth webspace (which currently redirects to a subdirectory of the previous maintainer’s personal website). But unfortunately we, the current Aptitude Team, are still lacking administrative rights on Aptitude’s Alioth project, which would be necessary to assign new team members who could work on that.
As an intermediate step, there’s now a (currently ;-) up to date Aptitude User’s Manual online in all 7 languages at
http://people.debian.org/~abe/aptitude/
and English at
http://people.debian.org/~abe/aptitude/en/
As this location could also suffer from the same MIA issues as any other “personal” copy, the plan is to move this to somewhere under http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/ as soon as we have full access to Aptitude’s Alioth project.
Our plans for then are:
- Redirects from http://people.debian.org/~abe/aptitude/ to e.g. http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/, so that all your links to or bookmarks of http://people.debian.org/~abe/aptitude/ are still valid. (This unfortunately won’t work for jump marks to specific sections, just per file, i.e. chapter.)
- Set up a cron-job, which keeps the documentation in sync with the version of Aptitude in Unstable (and maybe also with Aptitude in Stable).
P.S.: Anyone interested in doing a German translation of the Aptitude
User’s Manual? Sources are in DocBook, i.e. XML, and available via Git.
Tagged as: Alioth, aptitude, Debian, documentation, link, online
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