Bug#485776: debian-policy: Adding graphical flowcharts for maintainer scripts invocation would help understand the process

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp>]

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 11:23:28 -0400
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> We are hoping to migrate Policy to rST built by Sphinx.  Maybe there is
> a flowchart tool that integrates particularly well with Sphinx.  CCing
> Hideki in case he knows.

 Maybe python-sphinxcontrib.blockdiag is the one.

$ apt show python-sphinxcontrib.blockdiag
Package: python-sphinxcontrib.blockdiag
Version: 1.5.5-1
(snip)
Homepage: https://github.com/blockdiag/sphinxcontrib-blockdiag
Download-Size: 7,700 B
APT-Sources: http://debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
Description: Sphinx "blockdiag" extension
 This package contains the blockdiag Sphinx extension. This extension enable
 you to insert block diagrams in your Sphinx document. This renders block
 diagrams by using python-blockdiag.


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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane