On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:35:25 +0200 David Bateman wrote: [...] > As mkdoc and mktexi are build tools that are independent of the package > in the same way than gcc is I don't see the need to distribute them with > the package and would prefer not to. Debian Policy mandates that every package included in Debian (main) complies with the DFSG (and hence, among other requirements, must have source) and "must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution". See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-main Hence the Debian source package should include mkdoc and mktexi or else Build-Depend on another main package which ships with those two Perl scripts. > However I have included noth > fixed.texi and fixed.txi in the source packages from octave-forge itself > now. Thanks. [...] > Do you seriously want > to package the mkdoc/mktexi scripts seperately from octave-forge itself, > just to be able to rebuild fixed.texi on the off-chance you'll want to > do it? As I said above, I seriously think that the mkdoc/mktexi scripts should be distributed in Debian (main). In the Debian source package of octave-fixed or otherwise in another main package. As in my previous messages: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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