On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Why even involve debhelper? At least in the case of the Project Gutenberg > files some of which I have, they are just long ascii files so the rules > file could just stick them into (for example) /usr/share/doc/etexts call > doc-base and be done with it. AFAIK all the project Gutenberg files are > public domain so one generic fill in the blanks copyright file would > suffice. Voila you almost instantly have 2000 works containing more than > a gig of text. > > I'd buy such a CD if it were offered. And I know plenty of people who > would too. >
I would, too. But I don't see the need to *package* large ascii files. What would be the difference between Gutenberg Debian-packaged and Gutenberg gzipped on CD or ftp? There *is* a difference for documents that require some technical setup to work (like the kjv-bible that needs a special viewer program) or are processed by other programs (like verse). Bj"orn Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frankfurt am Main, Germany