Bug#698081: O: texi2html -- Convert Texinfo files to HTML

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 07:10:04PM -0500, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:54:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > are there any news regarding your texi2html ITA?
> > 
> > If packaging 5.0 still is problematic [...]
> 
> texi2html 5.0 will never make it to the archive. texi2html is obsolete
> (it has been superseded by makeinfo) and I hope to have it removed from
> the archive in the near future. Please see this debian-devel thread for
> more details:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01516.html
> 
> If you're interested in helping out, you're welcome to submit patches to
> packages still using texi2html; you can find a list of these here (just
> search for "texi2html"):
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/build-depends-on-obsolete-package.html

I am going through WNPP bugs, and my main interest is whether or not you 
are adopting texi2html.

Whether 5.0 ever gets uploaded is not important for me.

Whether texi2html gets removed at some later point is not important
for me (assuming the build dependencies are fixed at that point).

> Best wishes,
> Ryan

cu
Adrian

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