Op maandag 2 februari 2004 00:46, schreef Matt Zimmerman: > > Okay found them. I'll download them for there. However, before I > > continue with merging/processing or whatever, I'm curious to know whether > > you can distribute (apt/deity) with the converted docs (to xml docbook-4) > > in combination with xmlto (or whatever xml processor you would like to > > use of course). > > Currently, the way it works is that the man pages are processed ahead of > time, so that the source tarball includes them in nroff format. There are > makefile rules to rebuild them, but when the package is built from source, > it is not necessary to deal with the translation.
Matt, What happens (happened) is that the apt version produced by conectiva is pulled out of debian apt and than changed/updated to work with rpm. Conectiva than produces a tarball which does not have the preprocessed docs and the unprocessed docs are than released. -- Richard
