Re: Upstream ChangeLog in PDF documentation

[Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com>]

On 04/07/2011 10:46 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> Personally I would do one of the following, in decreasing order of
> preference. You might find that whatever the PDF is built from is
> easier to convert to plain text than the PDF itself. Check in the
> Title/Producer/Creator fields of the PDF for some hints on what might
> be the source code for the PDF.

It's LaTeX, and I'm not sure it would be easier at all.

> 
> Ask upstream to create plain text NEWS and ChangeLog files for their
> next release.

Will do. They also include a binary in their source distribution, so I
will have to contact them anyways.

> 
> Ignore the problem altogether.

Naaahh...

> 
> Create the files from the PDF in debian/rules build. No need for an
> extra script nor a patch containing the results.
> 

Can do, but then this will bloat the Build-Depends a bit... But
probably, the cleanest solution.

Thanks

Michael