As I am away the next two weeks, is somebody interested to make a patch to build such a package from the python source?
Fabian Fagerholm writes: > Hi! > > I've been working on packaging Albatross, a web application toolkit for > Python (see ITP: #193574). Albatross has very nice documentation that is > written in LaTeX. The distribution includes a Makefile for generating > PostScript, PDF and HTML from the LaTeX sources. The output is in the > same style and spirit as the rest of the Python documentation. > > However, the Makefile relies on mkhowto and several other files that > exist in the Python upstream source tarball. These files are not, to my > knowledge, included in any Debian package, only in the source packages > for python2.x. Thus for the current version of my Albatross packages, I > ship a subset of these files in my diff in order to build the docs. > > My reason for approaching you with this issue is that I think it would > be useful to have these tools packaged in some manner. Since you are the > maintainer of the Debian Python packages, I thought it would be a good > idea to discuss possibilities before opening wishlist bugs or anything. > > I have two ideas: either ship an appropriate subset of the contents of > the Python Doc directory in python2.x-dev, or make a new package, > perhaps something like python2.x-doc-dev, that includes everything > needed for producing this kind of documentation. Packages that build > docs in this manner could then build-depend on the appropriate package. > > Perhaps you have better ideas, or perhaps this issue has already been > solved before? > > Thanks for your work on Debian and Python! > Cheers, > -- > Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > paniq.net
