Re: Shipping .texi sources in binary packages (was: unidentified subject)
Hi,
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
Santiago> The purpose of shipping the docs in binary packages is to
Santiago> made them available to be read, not to be printed.
And the purpose of the proposed change to Policy is that the
documentation be available in a format amenable to further
manipulation, so that it may be coaxed into formats more to the
liking of the user, or to be printed (I still prefer reading long
documents on paper)
Santiago> Do you propose that .sgml replaces .html as our preferred
Santiago> documentation format in the long run?
Nope, nothing as radical as that. I just propose that of the
primary (the preferred for for modification) happens to be sgml (or
texi, or nroff, or whatever), then that be also available in *some*
.deb package .
Santiago> Do you propose to convert all .texi to .sgml?
This would not be easy.
As I said, put the sgml/texi/*roff format documentation, in a
separate package if need be, and make it available to people who need
it in non-html.
manoj
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