Re: Removing the deprecated htmldocs for good?

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Dec 30 2021 - 11:19:25 EST


Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Jonathan, hi Konstantin,
>
> While scanning through the internet for kernel documentation, I
> stumbled upon the old deprecated htmldocs under
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/. I see that on
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/, we already point out that 'htmldocs -
> Kernel Documentation in docbook format (deprecated).' is deprecated.
> If I am not mistaken, all the content from htmldocs has now been
> transformed into .rst and has potentially evolved further and hence
> all relevant information should also already be available somewhere in
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/.
>
> Is it now time to delete the content under
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/ for good?

I think that time may have come, yes; perhaps just have it redirect to
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ instead?

Thanks,

jon