Bug#856256: ITP: afaq-dl -- Download/update the sources of anarchism book

[ju <ju@riseup.net>]

Hi,

Joerg Jaspert:
> On 14596 March 1977, ju xor wrote:
> 
>> * Package name    : afaq-dl
>>   Version         : 1.0.0
>>   Upstream Author : Name <ju@riseup.net>
>> * URL             : https://0xacab.org/ju/afaq-dl* License         : GPL
>>   Programming Lang: Python
>>   Description     : Download/update the sources of anarchism book
> 
>> Download/update the online book An Anarchist FAQ (AFAQ),
>> convert the HTML to Markdown and push the changes to the afaq repository.
> 
> And why should this be packaged? Especially the long description seems
> to suggest that this is a highly specialised tool used by something like
> one or two people who can actually push changes to some repo somewhere.

It's not a highly specialized tool: it's an scraper that automatically
will retrieve the content of a the book website and convert it to
Markdown. Maybe it should be added in the description that all the steps
are optional.
Pushing to the repository is also made automatically (optional), user
only need to have a SSH private key in a directory. This is the only
step that would require to contact/issue a bug to add the public key.
Probably this is something also to clarify in the README.
Otherwise the user could push to a repository of her/his/their own, in
which case the difficulty wouldn't be superior to the one generating SSH
keys.
One of the maintainers of the anarchism package was commenting that it
would be nice to have also in Debian de tool that generates the content
of anarchism (see 820549#42) and i think it would be the correct thing
to do too.

> And not something useful for a general Debian user.
> 
Well, there're lots of specific tools in Debian that are intended only
for Debian administration tasks or other specific tools not easy to use
by a general Debian user.

> (Also, target contrib, not main)

Ok, that can be done.

Thanks a lot,
ju.