Bug#274957: ITP: susv3 -- Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:11:43PM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : susv3
>   Upstream Author : Copyright (c) 2001-2003 IEEE and The Open Group
> * License         : Installer Package: Public Domain
>   Description     : Fetch and install SUSv3 documentation
> 
> This package was created at the request of Andrew Josey from the
> Austin Group (The committee that handles the Posix standards).  The
> documents do not allow redistribution, but are located in a way that
> is easy to fetch.  Because the upstream documentation is non-Free, this
> package is targetted at contrib.

Why is it useful to fetch this documentation and install it through a
Debian package, rather than say with your favourite web browser?

thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>