On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:19, Christoph Haas wrote: > > 3) In general, is there a policy about MSWord documents? > > I don't think there is a clear policy. But since the format is proprietary > I wouldn't put it into a Debian package anyway. I would suggest you remove > that documents from the source package, beg the upstream to release the > documentation in a proper format and just ship the text files until then. > Perhaps the upstream didn't want to learn DocBook/XML, LaTeX or whatever. > But Word is definitely a bad choice - especially for something that will > be considered a "free" Debian package.
This is of course true, but leads to the following question: is the Adobe PDF format more open than MS doc format, and why ? By the why, the catdoc utility could be used to read/dump the contents of a doc file, as a lightweight replacement of openoffice.org or abiword. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
