Re: Source package containing HTML-only form of texinfo doc

[fourmond@debian.org]

  Hello,

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:50:30PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote
> I'm one of Octave's Debian maintainers. 
> 
> The problematic part is that qtoctave is primarly a Windows application. I 
> don't think they even have any sort of code for generating the HTML files 
> from the Texinfo sources, so even including the texinfo files would still be 
> a violation.
> 
> Maybe they should just update the documentation and use the HTML files from 
> [1]. I think the files there have a more liberal license.
> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/

  As for a debian package of qtoctave, the solution we think is the best for now is to repackage the 
original tarball to remove the texinfo-generated stuff and Recommend octave2.9-htmldoc with 
appropriate paths rewrites.

  Regards,

	Vincent