Re: Python mkhowto and friends
As I am away the next two weeks, is somebody interested to make a
patch to build such a package from the python source?
Fabian Fagerholm writes:
> Hi!
>
> I've been working on packaging Albatross, a web application toolkit for
> Python (see ITP: #193574). Albatross has very nice documentation that is
> written in LaTeX. The distribution includes a Makefile for generating
> PostScript, PDF and HTML from the LaTeX sources. The output is in the
> same style and spirit as the rest of the Python documentation.
>
> However, the Makefile relies on mkhowto and several other files that
> exist in the Python upstream source tarball. These files are not, to my
> knowledge, included in any Debian package, only in the source packages
> for python2.x. Thus for the current version of my Albatross packages, I
> ship a subset of these files in my diff in order to build the docs.
>
> My reason for approaching you with this issue is that I think it would
> be useful to have these tools packaged in some manner. Since you are the
> maintainer of the Debian Python packages, I thought it would be a good
> idea to discuss possibilities before opening wishlist bugs or anything.
>
> I have two ideas: either ship an appropriate subset of the contents of
> the Python Doc directory in python2.x-dev, or make a new package,
> perhaps something like python2.x-doc-dev, that includes everything
> needed for producing this kind of documentation. Packages that build
> docs in this manner could then build-depend on the appropriate package.
>
> Perhaps you have better ideas, or perhaps this issue has already been
> solved before?
>
> Thanks for your work on Debian and Python!
> Cheers,
> --
> Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>
> paniq.net
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