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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
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* Trent W. Buck <[email protected]>, 2008-10-01, 12:05:
The upstream source apparently contains a bunch of useful contributed
features in the "sandbox" subdirectory.
sandbox/ in hosted in upstream's code repository, but it's not included
in upstream tarballs. So it wouldn't be possible to create another
binary package (or at least not without repacking .orig.tar.gz) out of
python-docutils source package.
Besides, it would be pain to properly maintain dozens of loosely related
modules, with major differences in quality and development dynamics.
The only sensible approach is to package only the interesting items,
each as a separate package. Apparently, we all agree that this approach
is better, thus I am closing this bug.
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Jakub Wilk
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