Bug#210450: documentation essential.dvi.gz missing

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Stefan Ulrich <stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk> schrieb:

> C M Connelly <c@eskimo.com> writes:
>
>> It looks like this material was dropped upstream.
>
> Yup; see e.g.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=131191
>
> It just occurred to me: Wouldn't it be a good thing to, instead
> of just removing such documentation, replace it with a `template'
> document that explains that the documentation had to be removed,
> and why? (If it's not against the Debian guidelines, such a
> template could even contain a pointer or a hyperlink to the
> actual non-free documentation e.g. on CTAN.)

Not a bad idea. It would be best to have a "blank" LaTeX document that
can be filled in with the respective link name, and a script that
automates the task of taking document names and pointers from a list (to
be maintained in te debianized source, or even upstream) and creating
the necessary files for tetex-doc.

There are mainly two task to do for this:

- Write the LaTeX document structure and the script

- phrase the legal information

Would you be interested in helping with that?

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie