On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 17:12 +0000, Massimo Manghi wrote:

> I'm the upstream developer/maintainer of Apache/Rivet. I'm also the 
> maintainer of
> the corresponding Debian package (libapache2-mod-rivet). 
> Apache/Rivet source code ships with an HTML manual generated from
> Docbook XML files. We regenerate the manual right before releasing and put it 
> in
> the tarball in order to save the Apache/Rivet user the task of figuring out 
> what tools
> are needed in order to recreate the HTML pages (being Docbook not so popular 
> and not so
> widely used now).

I expect most folks would be fine with the existing HTML manuals on the
website, but what about having the HTML manuals in a separate tarball
for the users who need them locally and don't want to build them?

https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/html/manuals.html
https://dlcdn.apache.org/tcl/rivet/binary/
https://wiki.debian.org/AutoGeneratedFiles

-- 
bye,
pabs

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