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Re: Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible



Hi Toni,

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:58:02AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : ansible-doc
>   Version         : 2.2.0.0-1
>   Upstream Author : RedHat <info@ansible.com>
> * URL             : http://www.ansible.com/
> * License         : GPL-3
>   Programming Lang: HTML, JavaScript
>   Description     : Documentation for Ansible
> 
> Currently, the Ansible package in Debian lacks proper offline
> documentation. This package aims to supply the documentation in HTML
> form offline, so one should not need to go to the aoupstream website to
> read it.

Which source is this built from?
Do you basically want a mirror of https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ in
a Debian package?

> Yours truly frequently suffers under bad network conditions, which make
> reading the website infeasible or outright impossible, so I think the
> package is useful.

If it is more than ansible-doc <module>, then it certainly is.
I just wonder whether it is sensible to built it from an own source,
and not from the ansible source itself.

> I hope I can collaborate with the maintainer of the ansible package to
> maintain this package.

CC'ed harlan, not sure if he is not drowning in -devel@ :)


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