Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:27:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > PA4 is the largest format that fits on both A4 and U.S./Canadian
> > "Letter" paper without resizing. I'd like this to be recommended as
> > the paper size for PDF and PS documents in /usr/share/doc by Debian
> > Policy.
>
> I'm not sure Policy is the appropriate place to start with a request like
> this. Policy for the most part codifies things that are already generally
> accepted by the project and widely implemented in the project. The best
> way to make changes like this is to build a consensus among Debian
> developers that it is the right thing to do and to implement it widely,
> and only then propose the Policy change.
OK, so I should raise "please use PA4" bugs against individual
packages that ship Letter (or A4) PDFs, and then once most of them
have been fixed re-open this (#495170) bug?
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