Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: jrub...@gmail.com
* Package name : blender-doc
Version : 3.0
Upstream Author : Blender Documentation Team <bf-docbo...@blender.org>
* URL : https://docs.blender.org/manual/
* License : CC BY-SA 4.0
Programming Lang: rST / Sphinx
Description : Offline copy of the Blender Manual available at
https://docs.blender.org/manual/
This is an entirely sphinx based full manual for the Blender 3D modelling
software. It is linked to from the Help menu of the Blender program, which
opens a web browser to https://docs.blender.org/manual/<lang>/<version>.
This documentation is not currently distributed with Debian, and I would
like
to see it so, to give users the opportunity to easily download the
manual for
offline use through apt, as well as giving the manual added protection
against total loss through the source code and compiled manual being
mirrored
on Debian's wide and diverse mirror network, in addition to downstream
mirrors.
The source code is currently located at
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-manual/trunk/blender_docs,
or
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-manual/branches/blender-<version>-release/blender_docs/
with translations located at
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-manual-translations/trunk/blender_docs.
I do not believe it is strictly necessary to package the translations too,
but they could be useful if the prospective maintainer chooses to
include them.
Instructions for building are found at
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/about/index.html,
however in my experience, python3-sphinx and sphinx-rtd-theme are
sufficient.
I have not packaged before, and I'm nervous, which is why this is an RFP for
the moment, rather than an ITP.
Best Regards,
Jonathan Rubenstein
