[Quilt-dev] Converting the latex documentation?

[Martin Quinson]

Hello,

quilt is currently used by 70 debian package to handle the delta between the
debian version and the upstream one. With time, this number tends to grow.

Unfortunately, this good news induce some extra load on my shoulder. Since
we are listed in the build-dependency of a lot of packages, we shouldn't
list too much other packages ourselves in order to reduce the possibility of
circular build-dependencies which are naturally evil.

For now, we have: cdbs, debhelper, gettext, gawk, hevea, lynx

The first two ones are debian-specific stuff. I plan to rework the packaging
to remove cdbs, but it's not the purpose of this mail.

gettext and gawk are mandatory and that's not a big deal.

But the last two ones are needed because of the LaTeX documentation, which
needs a *lot* of stuff if you want text and htmp versions in addition to
pdf.

So, if nobody objects, I plan to convert the .tex documentation to the POD
format (the perl online documentation). It is not as powerful as tex, but it
can be converted to a large panel of formats without difficulties. 


Any objection?
Mt.

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