* Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reichlin.li...@gmail.com> [2012-04-03 14:47]:

> On 29.03.2012, at 21:51, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > I already prepared a Debian package for quaternion (upcoming version
> > 2.0.0-1) and I noticed a minor issue: the file doc/quaternion.pdf is
> > distributed in the tarball, but the Debian standards required that the
> > source files are present.  So, I just pulled the quaternion.tex file from
> > the devel/pdfdoc SVN directory.  Please, include it in the next release
> > tarball.  As we are at it, it would also be desirable to have the
> > quaternion.info file in the tarball, if possible.
> 
> The file quaternion.pdf is generated by the octave script
> generate_quaternion_pdf.m [1].
> 
> quaternion.tex alone is not sufficient to build the manual as it
> includes functions.texi (attached). generate_quaternion_pdf.m also
> calls collect_texinfo_strings.m which produces the file functions.texi
> by extracting the Texinfo help string directly from the m-files listed
> in the INDEX file. Note that the generate_html package from OctaveForge
> is required.
>
> [1] 
> http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/quaternion/devel/generate_quaternion_pdf.m?revision=10078&view=markup

Thanks for the clarification.  I still think that quaternion.tex
should be included in the tarball. even if it is only part of the
final generated document.  At any rate, it contains the copyright
notices and the license conditions for the documentation.

Rafael

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