On 04/07/2011 10:46 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Personally I would do one of the following, in decreasing order of > preference. You might find that whatever the PDF is built from is > easier to convert to plain text than the PDF itself. Check in the > Title/Producer/Creator fields of the PDF for some hints on what might > be the source code for the PDF.
It's LaTeX, and I'm not sure it would be easier at all. > > Ask upstream to create plain text NEWS and ChangeLog files for their > next release. Will do. They also include a binary in their source distribution, so I will have to contact them anyways. > > Ignore the problem altogether. Naaahh... > > Create the files from the PDF in debian/rules build. No need for an > extra script nor a patch containing the results. > Can do, but then this will bloat the Build-Depends a bit... But probably, the cleanest solution. Thanks Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d9d845f.9030...@gmail.com
