Le jeudi 22 décembre 2005 à 19:34 -0600, Kenneth Pronovici a écrit : > > Package: cedar-backup2 > > Version: 2.7.1-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > I noticed the documentation is available both as PDF (compressed as .gz) > > and html. Please do not package both in the same packages. > > The various manual formats serve different purposes. While the HTML > manual is good for online browsing, the PDF manual is best for printing. > I think it does serve a worthwhile purpose to include both. > > As an alternative, I might consider splitting the documentation into a > separate package. However, it doesn't seem like debian-devel has come > to a consensus on how large documentation must be (either in absolute > terms or relative to the remainder of the package) before it should be > split off. Do you have any thoughts on this? I was thinking about: autogenerating the documentation from sources (as it seems to be DocBook, it should be doable). And then, ship the documentation as separate package, mostly because it is bigger (wrt to disk space) than the program itself. But, it seems that to include the pictures in the PDF version (I read that in the sources, in doc/docbook.txt), you need the Jimi Java library, which is non-free, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/11/msg00106.html
And btw, I'm sure that shipping the PDF with the pictures is not DFSG-compliant. I did not look at it, but is it? > KEN
