Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Documentation formats "): ... > I'm not certain that distributing HTML with the packages and other formats > separately is a good idea. I think it might be a better idea to continue > as now and use on-line conversions from man and Info to HTML. Pre-converted > HTML should be distributed as separate packages.
So you'd rather I put the SGML source for the manuals in the dpkg binary package, rather than the HTML pre-converted form ? Conversion of things into HTML is particularly awkward because you end up with lots of intermediate files. And, my debiandoc-sgml converters are not exactly fast. Converting the dpkg manuals to plain text takes about 5 minutes on my Cx5x86/120 (clock-tripled 40MHz). This is about 50% of the time it takes to build a whole new release of dpkg (the HTML converter is much faster). Ian.