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Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo



On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:21:39 +0000 Matthew Garrett wrote:

> > Do you think that figuring out the LaTeX markup by looking at the
> > resulting PDF is easy?
> 
> As a practical example of this, Python ships HTML documentation. This
> is in a pre-built tarball in the Debian source package, because the
> original docs are in latex and require latex2html to turn them into
> HTML. latex2html is non-free, so can't be a build-depend. Should the
> python docs be moved to contrib, or is the HTML sufficiently
> modifiable that they can stay in main?

Yes, this seems to be a sarge-ignore bug.
Possible solutions:

* python-doc is moved to contrib[1] and with HTML actually built from
  actual LaTeX source by latex2html (non-free Build-Depends:)

* python-doc is rebuilt from LaTeX source by a DFSG-free LaTeX->HTML
  compiler (TeX4ht?)

[1] note that python only Suggests: python-doc, so pythin would stay in
    main

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