Hello,
I think that the load of Debian developer's documentation which is
intertwined quite a bit should be packaged together instead of
separately, and external links should be converted to relative
links so that a local install of these documents can work.
Currently, although I have most if not all these packages installed,
when the text in one package refers to a passage that is in another
package (ie, developers-reference and packaging-manual), then
instead of taking my local copy, my browser tries to go out to
the web. This is annoying and even counterproductive when one is
offline (laptop !). It also makes reading this documentation
from a file system more difficult and tends to demand a running
web server. I actually don't see why/how these documentation
snippets are not forced together, not even by Depends, since
most of it doesn't make sense alone, and tarring all these
together into one package should be easy.
Best Regards,
--Toni++