Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:21:39 +0000 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > > Do you think that figuring out the LaTeX markup by looking at the
> > > resulting PDF is easy?
> > 
> > As a practical example of this, Python ships HTML documentation. This
> > is in a pre-built tarball in the Debian source package, because the
> > original docs are in latex and require latex2html to turn them into
> > HTML. latex2html is non-free, so can't be a build-depend. Should the
> > python docs be moved to contrib, or is the HTML sufficiently
> > modifiable that they can stay in main?
> 
> Yes, this seems to be a sarge-ignore bug.
> Possible solutions:
> 
> * python-doc is moved to contrib[1] and with HTML actually built from
>   actual LaTeX source by latex2html (non-free Build-Depends:)
> 
> * python-doc is rebuilt from LaTeX source by a DFSG-free LaTeX->HTML
>   compiler (TeX4ht?)

Hevea works pretty well for me.  This is not a difficult bug to fix.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu