On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:50PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > Colin Tuckley wrote: >> I'm working on a package (blas) that contains a postscript document with no >> source supplied by upstream. >> >> Obviously I can remove the postscript file from the binary package, but is >> this sufficient or do I also need to remove it from the source package - >> which implies re-packaging the .orig.tar.gz >> >> I'd like to get this right because the package was rejected when it was last >> uploaded (by a previous maintainer) because of this. > > I seems silly to leave out the documentation. For a library like blas you > really need it. It should be possible to extract the text from the > Postscript document using pstotext (apt-get'able) > (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm). > > (I have never used pstotext, so I don't know how well it works). The > salvaged text could then be reformatted for texinfo, for example. > > This leaves the problem of copyright, which I assume is independent of > format, and could possibly simply be propagated to the reformatted > document.
While I guess patches for this are very appreciated, the gfortran transition shouldn't stall on this documentation issue, either. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
