I have finished draft versions of the programmers' and policy manuals. The PostScript conversion isn't working yet, but they are available for your perusal in HTML or plain text (with or without overstrikes).
HTML via the Web: http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/programmer.html/ http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/policy.html/ Note the trailing / on each URL. ASCII text versions, SGML source and the DTD via anon-ftp: chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk:/users/ian/dpkg-doc/ Your comments would be appreciated; feel free to send patches to the .sgml files if you think it appropriate (but don't send lots of unrelated patches together). PACKAGE MAINTAINERS TAKE NO ACTION. This is NOT an official announcement of the change to the standards. If you want to see what's coming and argue about it (again) please do so though :-). The DTD was once linuxdoc but is no longer. I've ripped out everything that my converters don't support, and added new tags to do the things that I needed. I've called it dpkgdoc. The converters are based on sp (the SGML parser package containing nsgmls) and sgmlspm (the Perl modules for parsing sgmls output) with another Perl glue script for cross-referencing. Ian.