New devhelp and what books?

[Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>]

Hello friends,

After a long forced vacation I'm finally getting up-to-date with my Debian
life.

I'm right now updating devhelp to its gnome2 version and I would like to
discuss some issues with this list:

First of all, there are preliminary packages for 0.6.0 at:

deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian unstable devhelp

I'll probably upload the fixed books this night, not sure yet.

So here's what I am thinking:

Many gtk2 related packages already provide their .devhelp files. For example
the libgtk2.0-doc package provides the .devhelp for many books.

I earlier provided devhelp-book-gtk2. I am thinking about turning it
into an upgrade package which can then be removed after that.
devhelp-book-gtk2 was carrying a modified .devhelp, because
devhelp 0.4.0 did not understand the new format books.

Also:

There are lots of books I packaged which are related to Gtk1.2 and
GNOME1.4... I'd consider them to be obselete and would like to
drop them (or shade them away). That's even a good way of promoting
the further use of Gtk2 and GNOME2.

Well, my actual list is:

devhelp-book-autotools_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-binutils_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-cvs_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-emacs_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-gdb_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-ggad_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-glibc_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-gnome_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-gtk_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-gtk2_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-make_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-pygtk2_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-python_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-books_0.2-9_all.deb
devhelp-book-sdl_0.2-9_all.deb

Which come from some lib*-doc from unstable and:

autoconf-2.53a.tgz  cvs.tar.gz    gdk-1.2.tar.gz     glibc.tar.gz       
libart.tar.gz      liboaf.tar.gz  pygtk-2.0.tar.gz
automake-1.7.tgz    emacs.tar.gz  gdk-pixbuf.tar.gz  gnome-vfs.tar.gz   
libglade.tar.gz    make.tar.gz    python.tar.gz
binutils.tar.gz     gconf.tar.gz  ggad.tar.gz        gobject-2.0.tar.gz 
libgnome.tar.gz    panel.tar.gz   sdl.tar.gz
bonobo.tar.gz       gdb.tar.gz    glib-1.2.tar.gz    gtk-1.2.tar.gz     
libgnomeui.tar.gz  pong.tar.gz    zvt.tar.gz

I also have some new books at hand to package.

Suggestions, questions?

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