Bug#544353: debian-policy: Offer One Big HTML http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:03:53AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.3.0
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Please offer link to a One Big HTML page, which would:
> 
> - be easier to search (forward, backward)

I use the text version for that reason...

> - store to browser's offline cache

Why not just simply install the Debian package and brwose locally ?

Note that this can be trivially generated from the file policy.sgml
using 'debiandoc2html -1 policy.sgml'.
There are two options:
1) ship policy-onefile.html in the debian-policy package.
2) change the script that update //www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
to call debiandoc2html by itself.

Doing 1. increase debian-policy by about 420kb. Probably not a big deal
since system with small disk do not need to install it.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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