Re: Accepted octave-parallel 3.1.2-1 (source) into unstable

[Oliver Heimlich <oheim@posteo.de>]

Am 21. Mai 2018 09:28:17 MESZ schrieb "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien@debian.org>:
>Hi Rafael,
>
>On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:05:41PM +0000, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>>  octave-parallel (3.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>>  .
>>    [ Rafael Laboissiere ]
>>    * New upstream version 3.1.2
>>    * d/copyright: Reflect upstream changes
>>    * d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.4 (no changes needed)
>>    * Drop HTML form of documentation
>
>What’s the rationale for dropping the HTML documentation? It seems the
>logic
>for building it is still present (src/Makefile.in). Also recall that
>HTML is
>the preferred documentation format in Debian (Policy §12.4).
>
>Best,

Hi,

I didn't check the changes by Rafael, but the upstream package includes HTML documentation now. It is no longer necessary to build it for the Debian package.

Oliver