Re: Info download service

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@brilhante.top>
> Cc: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org,  stefankangas@gmail.com,
>   vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  rms@gnu.org,
>   help-texinfo@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:42:58 +0000
> 
> That is a Debian problem, not a Emacs problem.

What is?  (Since you haven't quoted the parts to which you are
replying, I cannot guess what problem you are alluding to.)

> My GNU/Linux-libre system does not have that problem. And that would
> lead to centralization of manuals, and are we sick of centralization?

The place of each manual is with the package it documents.  Translated
manuals should IMO also be part of the release tarball of the
corresponding packages.

> Also, it will begin as authors having to upload their manuals to a
> central place, only to later that place having problems and having to
> make some restrictions, and then new book places arise where you could
> upload books with less restrictive policies than the central place,
> resulting in people having to upload to various places, or else no one
> will read their books. Also distributions stopped providing info books
> (they only offer a link) since there is already a outside place that
> hosts books for them. Leaving distributions without manuals, for a thing
> that should have been dealt with at the Debian distribution level. Now
> books can only be obtained by a JavaScript enabled web browser (for
> security reasons) and those info book places are praised as an
> "innovation of technology" by various magazines. The end.
> 
> :-) :-)
> 
> Things are good as they are. My best advice is to change from Debian to
> Parabola.

Indeed, AFAIK Debian has problems with Info manual (and FSF manuals in
general), since they consider them to be non-free.

But other distros don't have this problem, AFAIK.