Bug#119143: marked as done (it would be nice to have policy shipped as info (debiandoc2info))
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Subject: debian-policy: it would be nice to have policy as texinfo
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to have Debian policy available as info packages for
emacs. The best way to do this, I suppose is to have a seperate
package...
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux ashland 2.4.14 #5 Wed Nov 7 01:11:38 CET 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii fileutils 4.1-7 GNU file management utilities.
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Subject: Re: Bug#119143: Policy Manual as info
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:32:32PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote:
> > > It would be nice to have Debian policy available as info packages
> > > for emacs. The best way to do this, I suppose is to have a
> > > seperate package...
>
> > % du -ksh policy.info*
> > 12K policy.info
> > 300K policy.info-1
> > 16K policy.info-2
>
> > I'm not sure if it's worth it. Can you generate it yourself (just
> > run debiandoc2info policy.sgml) and see if it really has something
> > you need?
>
> I just liked the idea of being able to whiz through it quickly with
> emacs, but it's really not that important. If you don't feel like
> creating it, or don't think it's worthwhile, don't bother. I'd
> forgotten about this wishlist item myself:-)
Perhaps one day if we ever split out each format in its own package. We
recently added PDFs and the package grew considerably, so adding info as
well seems a bit excessive :) I'll close the bug, thanks.
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