Francesco Poli wrote: > 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 * latex2html is released under the GPL and moved to main. The author has already said he would do this with the next version, but that next version may be a long time off; the best solution would be a permission statement. - Josh Triplett
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