Bug#663281: tex-common: Switch from debiandoc to docbook

[Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>]

Package: tex-common
Version: 2.10
Severity: normal
User: debian-doc@lists.debian.org
Usertags: docbook-xml-transition

Dear Maintainers,

The repetitive URLs in the Debian TeX Policy are, well, receptive.  I
wanted to do something about them, and the obvious thing was to factor
most of them into bibliography entries (one per document), so a single
citation mark like, say, [TDS] could replace a URL or three in running
text.  (This would also make the source easier to follow.)

Unfortunately, debiandoc doesn't seem to support such amenities, so it
looks like the easiest thing is probably to switch to DocBook.

There are instructions on <http://wiki.debian.org/DocbookXmlTransition>,
though the .po-related steps seem inapplicable.

Unfortunately, the output is not indented, and currently does not
declare its encoding, which confuses Emacs (well, nXML) for some
reason <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663279>.

(Also, it inserts comments to the effect that it expects the documents
to use version.ent, and I must admit that I myself find the fact that
neither seems to actually do so rather puzzling.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  dpkg                   1.16.1.2
ii  ucf                    3.0025+nmu2

tex-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii  debhelper  9.20120115

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  dpkg                   1.16.1.2
ii  install-info           4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii  libpaper-utils         1.1.24+nmu1
ii  luatex                 0.70.1-1+b1
ii  mime-support           3.52-1
ii  po-debconf             1.0.16+nmu2
ii  texlive-binaries       2009-12
ii  texlive-common         2009-15
ii  texlive-doc-base       2009-2

Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii  lmodern  2.004.1-3.1

Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii  epdfview [pdf-viewer]            0.1.8-1+b1
ii  ghostscript [postscript-viewer]  9.05~dfsg-2
ii  gv [postscript-viewer]           1:3.7.3-1
ii  perl-tk                          <none>
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]                3.03-9

-- debconf information:
  tetex-base/olddat: true
  texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
  tetex-base/fmtutil-failed:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
* tetex-bin/texmf: true
  tetex-base/oldcfg: true
* tetex-base/oldupdm: true
  tetex-base/updmap-failed:

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