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Re: Bug#273323: doc-debian: please ship typesettable version of social contract and dfsg documents



On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 1:11 PM Diederik de Haas wrote:

> But then the question becomes: what is the authoritative version?

The other copies of it (in doc-debian and the doc directory of the
Debian apt archive) are all copied/built from the version on the
website.

https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/doc-debian/blob/master/doc-debian/debian/README.source
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/doc-debian/blob/master/doc-debian/doc/social-contract.wml
https://deb.debian.org/debian/doc/

> Given that, is it wise to have the WML version as the
> authoritative one?

At some point the website may switch from WML to something else but it
will be a lot of work to achieve.

> Pandoc supports various input formats, but I didn't see WML.

You could convert to HTML and use that as Pandoc input.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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