Package: python-docutils Version: 0.5-2 Severity: minor The upstream source apparently contains a bunch of useful contributed features in the "sandbox" subdirectory. For example, the mailing list recently had
>> What I don't know is how to make use of [the experimental manpage >> writer]. I don't want to hack on the installed docutils software; >> that's managed by [apt and dpkg] and it would be a mistake to mess >> about manually with those files. > > There's [...]/sandbox/manpage-writer/rst2man.py. You can just run > it from that directory. It depends on the current directory being in > the Python module load path, to find the "writers" package > there. It's not obvious to me how to translate that into instructions that will work for docutils installed by "apt-get install python-docutils", since it seems to assume I'm running docutils directly from an upstream checkout. It looks like the sandbox stuff in the python-docutils .deb. Perhaps it would be useful for these contrib scripts and modules to be available directly to Debian users, so they (I) can just run "rst2pdf", because it's in /usr/bin and the necessary contrib modules are installed in the appropriate place. Since these are experimental features, it's probably a bad idea for them to be part of the main python-docutils .deb. Therefore I suggest creating a second .deb from this source package that provides these contrib features in a "ready to use" fashion. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages python-docutils depends on: ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-central 0.6.8 register and build utility for Pyt ii python-roman 0.5-2 A module for generating/analyzing python-docutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages python-docutils suggests: pn texlive-lang-french <none> (no description available) ii texlive-latex-base 2007.dfsg.1-3 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages ii texlive-latex-recommended 2007.dfsg.1-3 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
