Bug#273323: doc-debian: please ship typesettable version of social contract and dfsg documents
Package: doc-debian
Version: 6.5
Followup-For: Bug #273323
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-project@lists.debian.org
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I wanted to print the Debian Social Contract, which turned out to be WAY
more difficult then I expected and then it should be.
So I went to https://www.debian.org/social_contract and wanted to print
that. Apparently there isn't a print stylesheet for it, so if you print
that, you also get 'Blog', 'Micronews', 'Planet' and a search box.
Of course I didn't mind the Debian logo.
The last page (of the print preview) shows that it's available in a whole
bunch of languages, which is good, but undesirable for a print version.
And then you get a bunch of links, also undesirable for a print version.
Then I went looking for a PDF version and didn't find anything.
I did find a 'social-contract.txt.gz' (why compressed?), but that's
missing any form of nice formatting (that the webpage does have).
I did try 'zcat <path-to-social-contract-txt-gz>' and editing that in
LibreOffice Writer, but apparently I've lost my skills in office
programs, so I bailed on that.
I ended up using a Firefox addon (Print Edit WE) to strip all the things
I didn't need. That still didn't give me an option to have
- - 1 page with the Social Contract and
- - 1 page with the Debian Free Software Guidelines
(I also lost the Debian logo, but that may be a PEBKAC issue)
It doesn't have to be a 2 page document, but that seems kind of nice.
It really shouldn't be this hard to print the most essential document of
the Debian Project.
It was surprising (and a bit disappointing) that there isn't a nicely
formatted printable document/PDF available.
So hereby my +1 to getting this bug fixed.
Cheers,
Diederik
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
doc-debian depends on no packages.
Versions of packages doc-debian recommends:
ii debian-faq 10.1
Versions of packages doc-debian suggests:
ii firefox [www-browser] 88.0.1-1
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 78.13.0esr-1
ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.53.3~dfsg-7+b1
ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:21.08.0-1
ii okular [postscript-viewer] 4:21.08.0-1
ii qpdfview-ps-plugin [postscript-viewer] 0.4.18-5
ii qutebrowser [www-browser] 2.3.1-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20210102-6
- -- no debconf information
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