pe, 2006-02-10 kello 07:36 -0500, Neil Roeth kirjoitti:
> On Feb 10, Hendrik Sattler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I about packaging a library that ships an API reference in docbook SGML
> and
> > provides manual build targets for PDF, PS and HTML.
> >
> > Is there any preference on which type should be included in the -dev
> package?
> > I would prefer PDF:
> > * one file only
> > * easy to print
> > * many viewers available
>
> Could it be a configure option, so that the first time the package is
> installed it would ask which subset of the three to install (defaulting to PDF
> only), and later, when upgrading the package, it would install the same
> subset with no further interaction?
This has been discussed a long time ago and there is a policy decided.
>From the Policy Manual:
12.4 Preferred documentation formats
The unification of Debian documentation is being carried out via
HTML.
If your package comes with extensive documentation in a markup
format that can be converted to various other formats you should
if possible ship HTML versions in a binary package, in the
directory /usr/share/doc/appropriate-package or its
subdirectories.[76]
Other formats such as PostScript may be provided at the package
maintainer's discretion.
Thus the thing to do is to provide HTML.
It would be nice to be able to ship, say, HTML and SGML, and then have a
quick and easy way to generate other formats (PS/PDF for various paper
sizes, at least) from the SGML, and anyone who creates the tools to do
that will get a lot of goodwill.
--
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. -- O.W.
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