Hi Diane, On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 02:24:37PM -0700, Diane Trout wrote: > > I noticed info2www fell out of testing a while back, but has been > abandoned upstream and doesn't look maintained in Debian. > > Do people think it's worth trying to keep it alive? > > I was willing to salvage it and update the packaging to current > standards, though I'm not sure how well I could fix a security issue in > a perl cgi script if someone finds something still wrong in a 14 year > program. > > I asked a bit on #debian-devel in irc and seemed like keeping an old > cgi script running is perhaps questionable, and that perhaps packages > that currently only ship info docs should also ship html documentation. > > For what it's worth generating html documentation directly from the > texinfo source with texi2any --html does make nicer documentation than > is possible with info2www. > > I thought it worth asking the doc team what you all thought.
I feel info2www served it's purpose back in the days, these days people should use a better alternative like texi2any --html. I agree it'd be nice if packages that currently only ship info docs would also ship html. My € 0,02. Thanks for raising this subject here, Bye, Joost
