On 14 August 2018 10:44:44 CEST, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote:
>Quoting Alec Leamas (2018-08-14 10:20:55)
>> I'm considering packaging OpenCPN[1]. It's mostly straight-forward, 
>> but the documentation seems problematic.
>> 
>> The docs are basicallly a wiki based on DocuWiki [2]. As part of the 
>> release process the site is exported and html and PDF files in the
>git 
>> tree is updated. This is a manual process which relies on 
>> administrative privileges to the docuwiki instance.
>> 
>> After pushing the generated docs through the packaging toolchain 
>> lintian rightfully complains about missing sources - in this case,
>the 
>> wiki markdown files.
>> 
>> I have no experience in the docuwiki tool. At a glance, already 
>> getting the markdown sources seems non-obvious. Even if I had the 
>> sources, I see no path to rebuild the docs as part of a package build
>
>> process.
>> 
>> Is there any experience out there in this situation? Or just some 
>> thoughts?
>
>You could try generate the documentation with Pandoc.
>
>
> - Jonas
>
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Alas, pandoc does not support docuwiki input....

Cheers!
--alec 

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