Re: New package standards - LAST CALL

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Otmar Lendl writes in private email which I'm sure he won't mind me
posting:
...
> What I would appreciate is, that all the Developer Ressources
> (Guidelines, Hints, Virtual Names, FSSTD & co.) have a central
> WWW page where I can easily look up the currently valid standards.
> 
> Could you please arrange something like that ? It makes life a
> LOT easier for part-time packagers.

I think this would be a good idea.  We already have a central FTP
area, so it may be just a matter of writing the HTML page and making
the dpkg SGML documentation available.

What do I need to do to make the dpkg SGML documentation available ?
I can cause releases of the dpkg package to upload formatted versions
of the manual, but how should I package these for shipment ?  The HTML
versions in particular come in many files ...

Ian.