Debian doc-base Manual
Chapter 4 - TODO List

The following items are listed, in order of approximate priority, as to-do items. Our first priority is to define the core issues of the Debian Documentation System, which will have status as a Sub-Policy.

• Policy: document the doc-base document registration file format separately (or SUBDOC it) as a proposed Debian documentation system policy. Discussion is underway at debian-doc@lists.debian.org; Adam Di Carlo is in charge of this.

• Policy: define a first-cut standard as the document hierarchy. Discussion is underway at debian-doc@lists.debian.org; Marcus Brinkmann is in charge of this.

• Documentation update: show clean and minimal use of install-docs from maintainer script.

• It is extremely difficult to deal coherently with a misnamed control file, or a mismatch between a control file and the document field. This hit me in the transition between doc-base 0.4 to 0.5 (in 0.4 I had added, in a file install-docs-man, a document ID named install-doc-man). Something needs to be done about that.

• Determine a cleaner way to manage the various little files such as .dhelp and doc-base status files. This also involves behavior on remove or purge of the doc-base packages. I believe derived files such as .dhelp will eventually go away, since packages should understand the doc-base document registration control file format directly.

• Internationalization.

• Automated format conversion, including user preferences.

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