Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: Important bug reports (GNU documentation missing)

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:47 +0200
Christophe Jarry <address@hidden> 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

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