On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:47 +0200 Christophe Jarry <christophe.ja...@ouvaton.org> wrote:
> Regarding GNU software rejected by debian and listed on > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/DocRejectedByDebian, I have been > able to write a script that downloads documentation for most of them > on gnu.org/software/$SOFTWARE/manual. But, some core software have not > their documentation on gnu.org website: binutils, GCC and GDB. Those > have their documentation easily downloadable only as html files. > > For this reason, I extracted .info files from each of these 3 source > code and placed them on gNewSense's bzr server on Savannah. I thought > there was an easy way to download files for a given software with bzr, > but have been unable to find it. > > I wrote a script as a short term solution for gNewSense users to get > documentation for GNU software that debian considers non-free. But I > am planning to release a deb package for each of them, when I will be > familiarized with deb packaging. Are you planning to provide fixed packages for the entire program (eg, a new gcc package), or just a deb of the doco to sit beside it? > Given those informations, do you think I better have to just edit > the script to copy html files and directory recursively from > {binutils,gcc,gdb} website to a directory of the user calling the > script? In this case, in which user's directory should I copy this > html doc? I would suggest putting the info files in a bzr repo, and not scraping off the html. kk > Christophe -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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