Bug#495170: Recommend PA4 paper size for PDF and PS in /usr/share/doc/
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:44:18PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> 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?
I would suggest also providing some recipe by which this can generally be
accomplished on maintainer's systems, without requiring them to wrongly
modify /etc/papersize on their build system or mangle the upstream build
rules. E.g., it appears that setting PAPERSIZE in the environment is the
correct way to override default settings from libpaper.
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