This reply responds to the messages of Marco d'Itri and Paul Wise. Summary: the package w3-recs provides the standards by which web pages are developed; its compressed source would be about 200 MiB in size. On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:50:28AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > What is the purpose of this package? HTML, CSS, DOM, SVG, etc., are the standards according to which web pages are developed (which you probably already knew, but I explain it for the benefit of other readers). Without content developed according to these standards, Iceweasel/Firefox and others would not be very useful. This package provides the standards for offline use. If you were a web developer (I am not, except incidentally) and online access to the standards is not always convenient, then this package might interest you. The package is thus similar in purpose to Iustin Pop's package doc-rfc. For information, the package has been in the archive since 2002. Its past (not present) maintainers include Francesco Paolo Lovergine, Robert Luberda and Stefano Zacchiroli. Those maintainers have actually put quite a bit of work into the package (thanks), so it's in pretty good shape, only it badly wants a data update from upstream. It may want a few other things, too. On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:00:57AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I think you mean 200 MiB? That's right. Thanks. > I'd suggest a package 'salvage', add yourself to > the Uploaders. If the maintainer never surfaces, you can > then remove them from Maintainer. Okay. If the present NMU works out all right and the current maintainer does not resurface, then I'll consider it. This and your other advice sound like good ideas.
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