On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Ben Finney wrote: > On 01-Apr-2012, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > In this particular case, there is a manpage which is generated via > > texinfo2man, so the indent-doc package does not add any info which is not > > already in the manpage. > > I agree that a mere HTML rendering of what is already in the ‘info’ > document and the man page is not useful enough to suggest to ‘indent’ users. > > I wonder why it is packaged, then?
Because it's mandated by Debian policy: 12.4 Preferred documentation formats The unification of Debian documentation is being carried out via HTML. If your package comes with extensive documentation in a markup format that can be converted to various other formats you should if possible ship HTML versions in a binary package, in the directory /usr/share/doc/appropriate-package or its subdirectories.[107] The footnote says: The rationale: The important thing here is that HTML docs should be available in *some* package, not necessarily in the main binary package. May I close this bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
