Problems with PDF creation (was: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?)
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> Wait, there is less than 70MB of PDF. Yes, this is true. Due to
> difficulties of making nice PDF out of XML/SGML without hitting FTBFS,
> many packages does not bother PDF creation. Most of the doc containing
> PDF are:
Can you please be more specific about "difficulties ... nice ... FTBFS"?
There have been some problems when teTeX 3.0 was uploaded to sid after
sarge's release, but that was a one-time problem (and the central
packages like debiandoc-smgl, linuxdoc etc. were fixed quite fast;
db2latex was harder). Do you imply that people stopped generating PDF
files last summer/autumn because of these problems? Or are there other
problems I am not aware of?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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