How do I get the Debian manuals, especially New Maintainer's Guide and the Perl Policy in ASCII/ps/pdf?
Are they conveniently converted somewhere? Or can someone give me the magical incantations to convert them myself? I've tried (on the CVS version of debian-policy): sgmltools --backend=ps policy.sgml and sgmltools --backend=txt policy.sgml which does indeed create a Postscript version and a text version of the Debian Policy Manual (yes, I'd like to convert that too) but the text was in red in the Postscript version and both were very pooly formated... and footnotes were f*cked up in the text version. I'm using Debian Stable (2.2r3) on an IBM A21m Thinkpad with an unchanged 2.2.19pre17-compact kernel. I have 488 packages installed, debiandoc-sgml, jade, jadetex, sgml-base, sgml-datam sgmlspl, sgmltools-2 (task-sgml, task-sgml-dev) amongst them. Now, what did I do wrong...? Is this just some temporary problem with policy.sgml or is it general? -Peter Code is much like elephant dung. The more code, the more bugs. You have to let it rest a while to make sure that the bugs are gone (and large heaps rot slowly).
